Faerie Hollow
FAERIE HOLLOW, RINGSHALL DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100400
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Faerie Hollow
- Statutory Address:
- FAERIE HOLLOW, RINGSHALL DRIVE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100400
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Faerie Hollow
- Statutory Address 1:
- FAERIE HOLLOW, RINGSHALL DRIVE
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:
- FAERIE HOLLOW, RINGSHALL DRIVE
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 98998 13489
Details
LITTLE GADDESDEN RINGSHALL DRIVE SP 91 SE (West side) Ashridge Park 1/215 Faerie Hollow -
GV II
House. C16 hall house, converted to 3 estate houses in C17 or early C18, altered in C19, sold in 1920's, SE extension c.1970. Timber frame. Red brick casing and extensions. Steep old red tile roofs. A 16 storeys house facing W with 2 cells, end-chimney old part in middle. 3 front gabled dormers at eaves with cusped bargeboards and 3-light lattice leaded casements. 2 canted tiled bay windows to ground floor with a door between. 2 tall chimneys with pairs of diagonal square shafts. 3 gabled rear stair towers with winding stairs (N part rebuilt after a fire) and entrance lobby between southern 2. Frame has jowled posts, cambered tie-beams, clasped purlin roof with collar and queen-strut trusses. Leaded lancet window to each stair turret. Axial chamfered beams to floor and large open fireplace. Formerly known as Appletrees and Witchcraft Bottom. A main road formerly ran along valley to W of house.
Listing NGR: SP9899813489
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157746
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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