4 AND 5, CLAY END
4 AND 5, CLAY END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347980
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 4 AND 5, CLAY END
- Statutory Address:
- 4 AND 5, CLAY END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347980
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 4 AND 5, CLAY END
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4 AND 5, CLAY END
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 4 AND 5, CLAY END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Walkern
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 30469 24988
Details
TL 32 SW WALKERN CLAY END (south side)
4/6 Nos 4, and 5
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- II
House, now 2 houses. C16 or earlier open hall house, renovated as 2 houses in Gothick style in mid C19. Timber frame roughcast with steep hipped roof with gablets, of old red tiles. 2- storeys, 4-windows long, facing W, with No 4 on S occupying lower bay of hall and service end. Wide C19 Tudor arched doorway with battened door into each half. 3-light cast iron flush lattice casement windows. Similar windows in half-octagonal bay window to left of door to No 5, and shallow rectangular hipped bay window, to No 4. External rear chimney with 2 tall octagonal shafts, similar pair to central chimney built in upper bay of hall, and large 3-shaft external chinmney at N end. Visible parts of chimneys rebuilt in grey brick in mid Cl9. Interior has heavy jowled posts, very heavy cambered tie-beams, chamfered with hollow stops, close-studding in rear wall, chamfered joists in floor inserted in hall, straight tension braces in close studded partition at lower end of hall, and an edge-halved scarf joint with bridled butts in hall wallplate. Clasped-purlin roof with curved wind-braces exposed in upper chambers. Possibly the rectory house replaced by one in the High Street in 1632 (q.v.).
Listing NGR: TL3046924988
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159674
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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