39 AND 41, HIGH STREET
39 AND 41, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348433
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 39 AND 41, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 39 AND 41, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348433
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 39 AND 41, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 39 AND 41, 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:
- 39 AND 41, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bovingdon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 01456 03766
Details
BOVINGDON HIGH STREET TL 0103 (North side) 10/24 Nos. 39, and 41 25.4.86
- II
House, now 2 houses. C16, front refaced c.1900. Timber frame on stuccoed brick sill, roughcast at rear and ends carried over brickwork to ground floor. Plum brick front with red tilehung 1st floor and broad band of scalloped tiles. Steep tiled roof (renewed). Twin large rear-wall external chimneys capped off c.1940's. Oven and dairy in rear extension now with asbestos roof. A long 2-storeys house set back from street facing W. 4 windows to each floor and 2 boarded doors. 3- and 2-light casement windows. Segmental arches to ground floor. Interior has exposed timbers of a 4-bay house with jowled posts, straight braces to tie beams and wallplates, clasped-purlin roof with collar and queen struts, curved quadrant tension braces in gable and 2 framed crosswalls. Upper floor open to roof until ceiled at collar level recently. Squint-butted scarf joint in wallplate with 2 edge pegs. Wide panels in framed walls. No. 41 (S house) has chamfered crossbeam carrying end of axial floor beam of hall and wide space before framed portion of S end bay, possibly for a timber framed chimney or a cross-passage now removed. N bay has exposed chamfered axial beam and squarejoists probably inserted in C18. Possibly a hall house with storeyed parlour end at S. Boxmoor plaque no. 678 fixed to beam in No. 41.
Listing NGR: TL0146003767
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157551
- 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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