Hitch Brick Wall At Buckland Bury (On Roadside Extending North From Bury Weir Lake) is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. Wall.

Hitch Brick Wall At Buckland Bury (On Roadside Extending North From Bury Weir Lake)

WRENN ID: night-joist-flax
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: East Hertfordshire
Country: England
Date first listed: 13 December 1984
Type: Wall
Source: Historic England listing

Description

TL 3533 5/40

BUCKLAND HIGH ROAD (A10) (East side) Buckland Hitch brick wall at Buckland Bury (on roadside extending N from Bury Weir Lake)

GV II

Frontage wall. Early C19. Of Hitch's patent bricks buff in colour. About 2 m tall with 5 triangular front buttresses and rounded copings all of patent brickwork. In 1828 Caleb Hitch of Ware patented his hollow interlocking oversize bricks roughly 12 inches by 6 in by 6 in which economised on mortar and increased structural strength. Their distribution was mainly around Ware but extended N along the A10 formerly a Turnpike Road. (Branch Johnson (1970) 20).

Listing NGR: TL3560933641

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