The King's Lodge

THE KING'S LODGE, 28, BRIDGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1100913
Date first listed:
02-Apr-1966
List Entry Name:
The King's Lodge
Statutory Address:
THE KING'S LODGE, 28, BRIDGE ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1100913
Date first listed:
02-Apr-1966
List Entry Name:
The King's Lodge
Statutory Address 1:
THE KING'S LODGE, 28, BRIDGE ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE KING'S LODGE, 28, BRIDGE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Three Rivers (District Authority)
Parish:
Abbots Langley
National Grid Reference:
TL 08354 00570

Details

TL OO SE ABBOTS LANGLEY BRIDGE ROAD (South side) Hunton Bridge

3/13 No. 28 9.4.66 (The King's Lodge)

II*

Former house, now restaurant. Late C15 origins, largely rebuilt c.1640. Late C18 brick refronting and extension, extended C19 and C20. Timber frame, red brick front and additions. Tiled roof. C17 3 bay lobby entry replacing hall with earlier service bay to left, extended by 1 bay at both ends. 2 storeys and attic. Carved bracketed hood over entrance. 4 ground floor 3 light casements with arched headed lights, gauged brick flat arched heads, 3 similar first floor windows without flat arches. Over entrance and in left bay early C20 floral neo C17 plasterwork panels, that over entrance dated 1642. C18 left bay has an entrance with a carved bracketed hood. First floor 3 light casement as on main range. C19 right bay has a ground floor 2 light leaded pane casement. First floor plaster panel. Dentilled eaves throughout. Cruciform axial ridge stack. Left end stack. To rear original parlour bay has a rendered gable with exposed purlins and a large double shafted C17 external stack with offsets. Gable and lean-to outshuts and a short C19 wing to rear right. Interior: early C17 plasterwork in ground floor room. Stuart Royal Arms with 'C R' and '1642' on chimney breast, flanking lion, unicorn and foliated fleur-de-lys with vine scroll border, ceiling with binding beams, 16 panels with vine scroll borders, fleur-de-lys, lion, unicorn, rosette and Royal Arms. Some exposed framing, ovolo moulded stop chamfered fireplace lintel. 1 storey C20 wing to rear not of special interest. (Country Life 9.4.43: M Puloy Herts Archaeology, vol.8, 1983, p. 163: RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL0835400570

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Legacy System number:
158660
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Sources

Books and journals
Hertfordshire Archaeology in Hertfordshire Archaeology, Vol. 8, (1983), 163
Country Life in April, (1943)

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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