Ruins of Langley Palace in the Garden of No 80 (York Ridge)
RUINS OF LANGLEY PALACE IN THE GARDEN OF NO 80 (YORK RIDGE), LANGLEY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100417
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Langley Palace in the Garden of No 80 (York Ridge)
- Statutory Address:
- RUINS OF LANGLEY PALACE IN THE GARDEN OF NO 80 (YORK RIDGE), LANGLEY HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100417
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Langley Palace in the Garden of No 80 (York Ridge)
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUINS OF LANGLEY PALACE IN THE GARDEN OF NO 80 (YORK RIDGE), LANGLEY HILL
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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:
- RUINS OF LANGLEY PALACE IN THE GARDEN OF NO 80 (YORK RIDGE), LANGLEY HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kings Langley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL0663102584
Details
TL 00 SE
7/157
22.10.52
KINGS LANGLEY
LANGLEY HILL
(South side)
Ruins of Langley Palace in the garden of No. 80 (York Ridge)
GV
II
Ruined walls and fragments of stonework. C16 or earlier. Uncoursed
knapped flint walls with red brick angle, plinth offset and internal
arched recesses. Limestone dressed stonework from arches and mullioned
windows set into later walling attached to old walls. The ruins
represent the NW corner of a flint walled building and stand to about
4M. The walls are about 600mm thick and have signs of internal plaster.
They extend about 4M to S and 2M to E from corner where a lower wall
with stonework fragments is attached, pierced by a stone archway of
fragments. A royal palace existed here as early as 1299. Edmund of
Langley; Duke of York, 5th son of Edward III, was born here in 1341. It
remained a palace until the mid C15 and was given to the Duchess of York
in 1469. It probably ceased to be used from after this. The upstanding
ruins possibly formed part of the house built after the crown lease to
Sir Charles Morrisson in 1580 and before 1591. It lasted until at least
the late C17 and was the home of Lady Capel after her husband was
executed by Oliver Cromwell. (RCHM(1911)135 no.3).
Listing NGR: TL0663102584
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157688
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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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