Gade House
GADE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100395
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Gade House
- Statutory Address:
- GADE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100395
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Gade House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GADE 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:
- GADE 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:
- TL0016112280
Details
LITTLE GADDESDEN LITTLE GADDESDEN
TL 01 SW (East side)
2/203 Gade House
26.8.70 (formerly listed as
The Dovecote at
Home Farm)
GV II
Dovecote. In style early C18 but probably 1821 by Jeffry Wyatt as an
antiquarian exercise. Converted as part of a house in 1970's. Red brick
in Flemish-bond with some blue headers. Battered base faced with York
stone slabs with tooled margins. Steep tiled octagonal roof with a small
hipped dormer on each facet and open octagonal cupola with ogee roof and
vane. Single-storey red brick and tiled extensions leaving half of
dovecote exposed. An impressively massive octagonal tall dovecote with
walls rising sheer to corbelled eaves courses with 2 courses of
modillions and plain course between. Tall open cupola presumably
protected entrance for birds. Flat gauged arch to doorway on N face. 2
narrow windows low down. 17ft.10ins wide, with 5ft base, 25ft to eaves
and about 17ft high roof. (Senar(1983)107).
Listing NGR: TL0016112280
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157734
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Senar, H, Little Gaddesden and Ashridge, (1983), 107
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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