THE OLD HOUSE AND ADJOINING FRONT BLOCK OF NO 9/10

THE OLD HOUSE AND ADJOINING FRONT BLOCK OF NO 9/10, LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146)

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1348062
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: THE OLD HOUSE AND ADJOINING FRONT BLOCK OF NO 9/10
Statutory Address:: THE OLD HOUSE AND ADJOINING FRONT BLOCK OF NO 9/10, LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1348062
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: THE OLD HOUSE AND ADJOINING FRONT BLOCK OF NO 9/10
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD HOUSE AND ADJOINING FRONT BLOCK OF NO 9/10, LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146)

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE OLD HOUSE AND ADJOINING FRONT BLOCK OF NO 9/10, LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146)

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:: Great Gaddesden
National Grid Reference:: TL 03417 10742

Details

GREAT GADDESDEN LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146) TL 0310 (West side) 10/133 The Old House, and 26.1.67 adjoining front block of No. 9/10 (formerly listed as No. 7/8 Water End and No. 9/lO Water End)

GV II

House, now 2 houses. C16 or earlier, mid C16 chimney inserted, W-bay and rear stair tower early C17, altered and rear wing added C18. Exposed timber frame with red brick infill and steep old red tile roofs. Large former open-hall house of 2-storeys facing N with underbuilt side-jetty along roadside. 5 bays of structure with large internal chimney in middle, 1 1/2-storeys rear wing at E end and stair turret in the rear angle. 3 windows long front with bull-nosed joist end to support jetty. Rectangular, 1st floor, ovolo-moulded, transomed, 4-lights early C17 oriel window with lattice leaded lights and iron opening lights. C18 3-lights leaded casement below it, and plank door with hood for E part (No. 9/10). Blocked door in similar position to N part before catslide projection to right. W gabled end has C17 similar canted oriel on shaped brackets under a tiled pentice and tilehung gable triangle. Interior has deeply chamfered cross-beams, step-jowled posts, close-spaced studs, numbered joints, long curved braces, knee-brace next chimney on 1st floor, unjowled stout post at mid-bay, and clasped-purlin roof with collar-and-queen-strut trusses and curved wind-braces. Bread oven in bulge from main chimney with salt hollow below. Large extensions linked to No. 9/10 not of special interest.

Listing NGR: TL0341710742

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Legacy System number:: 157912
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.