Finlay House
FINLAY HOUSE, 19, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348001
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Finlay House
- Statutory Address:
- FINLAY HOUSE, 19, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348001
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Finlay House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FINLAY HOUSE, 19, HIGH STREET
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:
- FINLAY HOUSE, 19, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buntingford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3627429354
Details
TL 3629
7/42
BUNTINGFORD
HIGH STREET (west side)
No 19 (Finlay House)
(formerly listed as No 19)
22.2.67
GV
II
House. Early C18, interior altered early C19. Timber frame
roughcast. with contemporary red brick front. Steep old red tile
roofs. 2-storeys and attics T-plan house facing E with rear wing
extending as kitchen wing and stair tower in the S angle with the
front wing. Ambitious facade with giant order pilasters on a
high plinth with bold moulded wooden eaves cornice, interrupted
floor band, 3 box-sash upper windows slightly recessed with
moulded architrave and 6/6 panes, 2 similar windows on Ground
floor (restored in C20 with rubbed brick arches), and 6-panel
half-glazed door up 2 stone moulded steps, with rectangular
margin-light fanlight and timber doorcase with corner-shafts with
rings. Broad flat hood on large shaped brackets. Rear parts
have similar sash windows but 2-light casements light attics.
(Pevsner (1977)118: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3627429354
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159782
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 118
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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