Guildhall
GUILDHALL, TOWN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1112905
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- GUILDHALL, TOWN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1112905
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUILDHALL, TOWN 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:
- GUILDHALL, TOWN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thaxted
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 61139 30953
Details
1. THAXTED TOWN STREET (North West Side) Guildhall
TL 63SW: 5/144 20.2.67 GV I
2. Built between 1390 and 1410 for the Guild of Cutlers. Altered and restored in early C18, circa 1910 and 1978. Timber framed and plastered with frame exposed externally. Red plain tile, double range hipped roof. 3 storeys and cellars. Ground floor forms open flagged market house with open timber ceiling, and heavy cross beams, supported on great centre post. Cellar is original. 2 upper storeys are jettied on 3 elevations with moulded bressumers, and curved brackets. First floor has arcading of 2 centred arches. Roof is simple two armed crown posts originally gabled to Town Street. North corner incorporates parish cage. (RCHM 9).
Listing NGR: TL6117130989
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 122435
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)
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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