Listing Text

TQ 19 NW ALDENHAM ALDENHAM
(North side)

6/1 Aldenham Social Club
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GV II

Former house, now club. Early C16 front range. Early C19 brick
refronting. C20 extensions. Timber frame, some exposed. Stock brick
front. Tiled roof. Originally 4 bay end hall, subsequently all floored.
Hall re-opened to roof. 2 storeys to front. Hooded entrance to left of
central truss. 3 ground floor sashes to right: 12-pane flanked by 16
pane, all with cambered heads. 3 first floor sashes: 12-pane over
entrance and two 16-pane to right. Bracketed boxed eaves. Right end
ridge stack with oversailing cap. Stack to front left behind a lean-to
addition. Left gable end has exposed frame: jowled posts to cambered tie
beam, struts to collar clasping purlins. Jettied first floor underbuilt
with bay window. Bargeboarded gable. C20 link to right of front to C18
red brick former outbuilding. Doors to front, weatherboarded return.
Hipped tiled roof. Rambling C20 extensions to rear left not of special
interest. Interior: arched braces to tie beams, ceiled above tie beams.
(RCHM Typescript: Hertfordshire Archaeology, vol.6, 1978, p.78).

Listing NGR: TQ1398098561