Digswell Lodge
DIGSWELL LODGE, DIGSWELL RISE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101079
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Digswell Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- DIGSWELL LODGE, DIGSWELL RISE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101079
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Digswell Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- DIGSWELL LODGE, DIGSWELL RISE
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:
- DIGSWELL LODGE, DIGSWELL RISE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Welwyn Hatfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 24019 13782
Details
1. 5260 DIGSWELL RISE (south side) Digswell Lodge TL 21 SW 1/1
II
2. Built mid C17 by Humphrey Shalcross for his daughter, afterwards a farmhouse, recently extended for use as a conference centre. A square building of 2 storeys in red brick with hipped tile roof with a central chimney stack in which the square shafts are set diagonally. Moulded brick cornice at first floor level. Main elevation has 3 windows to the first floor above 2 to the ground floor, all in brick surrounds which have obviously been enlarged. Wood mullions and transoms of recent date. Brick plinth. Two hipped dormer windows to attic storey. One window to the side retains its original form of 4 mullion lights. Door in modern brick surround. The central chimney stack, recently restored, has a brick oven incorporated. Interior retains timber framing. An original plain stone fireplace. (See A Short History of Digswell Lodge by Dora Ward and Others 1963).
Listing NGR: TL2401913782
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158241
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ward, Dora et al, A Short History of Digswell Lodge, (1963)
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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