Crossways
Crossways, Little Heath Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101185
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Crossways
- Statutory Address:
- Crossways, Little Heath Lane
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101185
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Crossways
- Statutory Address 1:
- Crossways, Little Heath Lane
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:
- Crossways, Little Heath Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Nettleden with Potten End
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 01866 08134
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 03/06/2020
TL 00 NW
5/208
NETTLEDEN WITH POTTEN END
LITTLE HEATH LANE (east side)
Crossways
II
House. 1911 for Mr. Spencer Holland. Brick roughcast with steep hipped red tile roofs. A pretty Queen Anne Revival house of two storeys and attics facing west with symmetrical west front flanked by single-storey small square pavilions with steep pyramidal roofs topped by small louvered lanterns. Brick plinth, plastered floor band, heavy wooden modillioned eaves cornice, six first floor flush box sash windows with six/six panes and external shutters (second window from each end has no shutters). Shell motif over six panel door flanked by small windows in four-pilaster door case with deep barrel-vaulted panelled wooden porch on two Tuscan columns. Wider eight/eight panes sash window with shutters each side of porch. Small circular window to each pavilion.
Elaborate south front with two windows with shutters on each floor to each side of recessed centre with balcony with turned balusters carried on four consoles of four pilasters flanking door to garden. Two flat topped dormers on roof slopes. East front simpler with twin canted ground floor bay windows linked by hipped tile roof.
Thoughtfully detailed but not elaborate interior.
Date '1911' on plinth of sundial at centre of forecourt.
Listing NGR: TL0186608134
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157989
- 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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