The Old House

In the entry for:-

HEMEL HEMPSTEAD BOX LANE TL 00 NW (east side)

10/246 THE OLD HOUSE II

The description shall be amended to read:- House. Early C16, altered mid C16 and late C16; further alterations C17, C19 and early C20. Timber framed ground floor replaced in brick and let floor roughcast rendered. C19 additions of brick; all painted white. Plain tile roofs. Brick sacks. Original plan was of a 4-bay open hall house having parlour on left, and lower end, with buttery and pantry, on right; lower end floored mid C16; roof over hall and parlour raised, and floor inserted, late C16; further alterations C17, including addition of rear stair turret and cellar; C19 lean-to addition to left (parlour) end, addition at right end, and sub-division into 2 cottages;- early C20 reversion to single house. Entrance elevation: C20 leaded casement windows of 2 or 3 lights. Left section of 2 storeys, 2 bays with end stacks; side outshut on left. Right section of 1 storey and attic, 2 + 1 bays separately roofed, and having door on left in canopied architrave, 3 gabled dormers, and ridge stack. Rear: gabled stair turret, with lean-to porch on left; various C20 windows and one gabled dormer. Interior: chamfered beams and old joists with carpenters marks. Timber framing survives on 1st floor: in_the right-hand section it is of large scantling with thickly-jowelled wall posts and one visible tension brace; in left-hand section it is of lighter-scantling, with the wall posts arch-braced to wall plates, and there is some surviving mid-late C17 wall painting. Roof has old rafters and trusses, the rafters at left end re-ordered, the timbers over former hall smoke-blackened and the truss which was originally the hall central truss chamfered and originally open.

Information from unpublished report by James. Moir, 1987.

BOX LANE 1. 5252 (East Side) The Old House TL 00 NW 10/246

II

1. C17. Whitewashed roughcast and brick, old tiled roofs. 2 storeys on left, 1 storey and attics on right with 3 gabled dormers. 5 flush lattice casement windows. Cut bracketed doorhood. Timber frame.

Listing NGR: TL0374105643