Robin Hood House
ROBIN HOOD HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100392
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Robin Hood House
- Statutory Address:
- ROBIN HOOD HOUSE
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- 2004-06-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/12670/01
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100392
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Robin Hood House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROBIN HOOD HOUSE
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:
- ROBIN HOOD HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Gaddesden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 99887 12627
Details
LITTLE GADDESDEN LITTLE GADDESDEN SP 91 SE (East side) 1/200 Robin Hood House -
- II
Inn, now a private house. Probably C17 incorporating C16 cellar, altered 1855 by 2nd Lord Brownlow, became a house in C19. Red brick with random black headers to ground floor projecting in advance of roughcast and presumably timber framed upper floors. Steep old red tile roofs. 2-storeys and attics large house with symmetrical W front. Gabled wings flank a 3 windows wide recessed centre with 2 gabled dormers and formerly with central entrance. One window to each floor in wings. Casement flush windows those to attics retain rectangular leaded panes. Steeply gabled red brick porch on S with buff brick dressings and Brownlow plaque. 3 windows S front has tall bay window to single-storey wing and canted oriel over 3-light window on left. Tall red brick internal chimneys. RCHM (1911) noted old floor beams and flat shaped balusters on attic stair. Francis the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater auctioned hunters in 1746 at the sign of the Robin Hood on Little Gaddesden Hill to meet the cost of canal construction. (RCHM(1911)144 no.6: Senar(1983)102-3).
Listing NGR: SP9988712627
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157731
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Senar, H, Little Gaddesden and Ashridge, (1983), 102-3
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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