Digswell House
Digswell House, Monks Rise, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7NX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101082
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Digswell House
- Statutory Address:
- Digswell House, Monks Rise, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7NX
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101082
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Nov-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Digswell House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Digswell House, Monks Rise, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7NX
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 House, Monks Rise, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7NX
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 23744 14869
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/11/2018
TL 21 SW
1/5
MONKS RISE (south side)
Digswell House
(formerly listed as Digswell House Arts Centre, previously listed as Digswell House)
29.12.50
GV
II
Circa 1807. Built by Samuel Wyatt for Lord Cowper after the demolition of the medieval mansion a few years previously. A classical block of two storeys in brown stone, rendered and painted, with a replaced hipped slate roof. North (entrance) front has five windows in plain reveals, the centre three windows set in a slightly advanced bay under a simple pediment. Band at first floor cills. The front door, now entirely glazed, is enclosed by a severe Doric porch with two columns supporting a simple projecting cornice below a flat roof. Later C19 brick wing added to the north east. Rendered plinth. The south front is enriched by a very shallow portico of four tall Ionic columns that run the whole height of the house and support an undecorated entablature. Above this runs a low parapet, stepped slightly over the central pair of columns. The outer windows on the ground floor are of the C19 three-light type, set in shallow round-headed recesses. Plain panels are sunk above the central three windows, in order to relieve the voids between the storeys. The west end is a plain wall with three windows. All windows have hung sashes with glazing bars.
Listing NGR: TL2374414869
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158246
- 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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