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Latitude: 51.9082 / 51°54'29"N
Longitude: -0.1048 / 0°6'17"W
OS Eastings: 530469
OS Northings: 224988
OS Grid: TL304249
Mapcode National: GBR K9B.BBM
Mapcode Global: VHGP2.49GK
Plus Code: 9C3XWV5W+73
Entry Name: 4 and 5, Clay End
Listing Date: 31 May 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1347980
English Heritage Legacy ID: 159674
Location: Walkern, East Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, SG2
County: Hertfordshire
District: East Hertfordshire
Civil Parish: Walkern
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: Walkern
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Building
TL 32 SW WALKERN CLAY END
(south side)
4/6 Nos 4, and 5
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- II
House, now 2 houses. C16 or earlier open hall house, renovated
as 2 houses in Gothick style in mid C19. Timber frame roughcast
with steep hipped roof with gablets, of old red tiles. 2-
storeys, 4-windows long, facing W, with No 4 on S occupying lower
bay of hall and service end. Wide C19 Tudor arched doorway with
battened door into each half. 3-light cast iron flush lattice
casement windows. Similar windows in half-octagonal bay window
to left of door to No 5, and shallow rectangular hipped bay
window, to No 4. External rear chimney with 2 tall octagonal
shafts, similar pair to central chimney built in upper bay of
hall, and large 3-shaft external chinmney at N end. Visible
parts of chimneys rebuilt in grey brick in mid Cl9. Interior has
heavy jowled posts, very heavy cambered tie-beams, chamfered with
hollow stops, close-studding in rear wall, chamfered joists in
floor inserted in hall, straight tension braces in close studded
partition at lower end of hall, and an edge-halved scarf joint
with bridled butts in hall wallplate. Clasped-purlin roof with
curved wind-braces exposed in upper chambers. Possibly the
rectory house replaced by one in the High Street in 1632 (q.v.).
Listing NGR: TL3046924988
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