The Wheatsheaf Public House
THE WHEATSHEAF PUBLIC HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348434
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Wheatsheaf Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE WHEATSHEAF PUBLIC HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348434
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Wheatsheaf Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WHEATSHEAF PUBLIC HOUSE, 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:
- THE WHEATSHEAF PUBLIC HOUSE, 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 01603 03574
Details
BOVINGDON HIGH STREET TL 0103 (South side) 10/27 The Wheatsheaf PH -
GV II
House, now a Public House. C17, lower C19 additions at N. Timber frame plastered with painted brick to ground floor and steep old red tile roof. Slate roof to painted brick N addition with weatherboarded and old red tile single storey small building at N end next gate. A 2-storeys attic and cellar internal chimney plan house facing E, of 2 cells with additions up slope to N. 2 windows to each floor and lean-to porch to N part of main building. Interior has exposed beams and joists. Side along High Street probably originally jettied. Former lobby entrance blocked. Jowled posts with curved braces. Clasped purlin roof with collar and queen strut trusses. Old newel stair to attic. Chamfered floor beams with run-out stops and flat joists. Single storey weatherboarded and slaved or tiled roofed extensions to NW. (Roberts(1975)No.28).
Listing NGR: TL0160303574
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157554
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Roberts, E, The Bovingdon Survey, ()
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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