Basing House
BASING HOUSE, 46, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100850
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Basing House
- Statutory Address:
- BASING HOUSE, 46, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100850
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Basing House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BASING HOUSE, 46, HIGH STREET
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:
- BASING HOUSE, 46, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Three Rivers (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Batchworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ0607994497
Details
TQ 0694 SW/TQ 09 SE
9/172 and 13/172
26.7.51
RICKMANSWORTH
HIGH STREET
(North side)
Rickmansworth
No. 46
(Basing House)
II
Large house, now Council offices. C17 to rear, c.1740 front range.
Remodelled c.1850-60, extended c.1885 and early C20. Timber frame to
rear, rendered. Extended in red brick. Tiled roof, slate roofed
additions. 2 parallel 5 bay ranges. 2 storeys and attics. Steps up to
central entrance: 6 panelled C18 door, panelled reveals, pedimented
doorcase with fluted Doric pilasters, traceried semi-circular fanlight.
Flanking and first floor C19 sashes with flat arched heads, blind boxes.
Plinth, plat band. Moulded brick cornice. Stone coped parapet returned
at original gable ends with stacks with oversailing caps. Set back
slightly at each end is a single bay late C19 extension in slightly
darker brick but following the C18 model precisely. To rear: C17 range
has some exposed framing with brick nogging. External end stacks with
offsets. C20 windows. Left return: sashes to 2 storey early C20 block,
now Council Chamber. Garden elevation: 2 ground floor French windows
with margin lights, diamond leaded panes, segmental relieving arches. 4
bay ornate cast-iron verandah. 3 first floor sashes. End stacks. 2 span
slate roofs. Right return steps down to lower rear block with hipped
slate roof. 1 storey outshut to rear right and further additions not of
special interest. Interior: jowled posts, windbraces in C17 roof. C19
staircase. Plaster ceiling in Council Chamber. From 1672-7 Basing House
was William Penn's home in Rickmansworth. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TQ0607994497
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158815
- 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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