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173, High Street, Berkhamsted, is a medieval building in Hertfordshire, England. It is considered to be the oldest extant jettied timber framed building in Great Britain , dated by dendrochronology of structural timbers to between 1277 and 1297. [ 1 ]
Dr Simon Thurley, Chief Executive of English Heritage, said "This is an amazing discovery. It gives an extraordinary insight into how Berkhamsted High Street would have looked in medieval times." [254] 125 High Street, a house and shop opposite St Peter's Church, is a timber-framed building with a wing that is one bay of a 14th-century open hall.
In the 19th century, the main municipal building in the town was Berkhamsted Town Hall. [1] After it was formed in 1898, Great Berkhampstead Urban District Council (as it was initially called) met in the local workhouse (on the corner of High Street and Kitsbury Road).
Dean Incent's House is a 15th-century timber-framed house in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. It is reputed to be the birthplace of John Incent (c. 1480 – 1545), a dean in the Church of England who held office at St Paul's Cathedral from 1540 to 1545. The two-storey house is situated on Berkhamsted High Street.
The town hall served as the meeting place of Berkhamsted Parish Council until 1898, and the venue for hearings of the local magistrates' court until Berkhamsted Civic Centre was built on the south side of the High Street in 1938. [8]
The Parish Church of St Peter, Great Berkhamsted, is a Church of England, Grade II* listed church in the town of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom. [1] It stands on the main High Street of the town and is recognisable by its 85-foot (26 m) clock tower.
Sayer's Almshouses (1664) on Berkhamsted High Street. In 1660 the lease of Berkhamsted was taken on by the Lord Treasurer, Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland; it was during his residency that a large fire broke out, destroying two-thirds of Berkhamsted Place. Reconstruction was hastily commenced, probably financed by John Sayer, a wealthy ...
80 High Street: Q17542286: 109 High Street Hemel Hempstead: House: Early 19th century: 18 June 1948: 1342194: 109 High Street: Q17542717: Fernery, attached wall to west and steps to south, Ashridge Little Gaddesden: Fernery: 1864: 26 March 2019