Gaddesden Place Stables and Attached Walls of 2 Enclosures on South
GADDESDEN PLACE STABLES AND ATTACHED WALLS OF 2 ENCLOSURES ON SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101254
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gaddesden Place Stables and Attached Walls of 2 Enclosures on South
- Statutory Address:
- GADDESDEN PLACE STABLES AND ATTACHED WALLS OF 2 ENCLOSURES ON SOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101254
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gaddesden Place Stables and Attached Walls of 2 Enclosures on South
- Statutory Address 1:
- GADDESDEN PLACE STABLES AND ATTACHED WALLS OF 2 ENCLOSURES ON SOUTH
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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:
- GADDESDEN PLACE STABLES AND ATTACHED WALLS OF 2 ENCLOSURES ON SOUTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Gaddesden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 04150 11155
Details
GREAT GADDESDEN BRIDENS CAMP TL 01 SW (West side) 3/69 Gaddesden Place Stables - and attached walls of 2 enclosures on south
GV II
Stables with attached walled enclosures, now a riding school. C18, probably 1768 by James Wyatt to whom is attributed Gaddesden Place (q.v.). Plum red brick with scattered black headers and fine red dressings. Low pitched hipped slate roofs. A symmetrical 3-sided courtyard of single-storey buildings open to the N and with 2 2-storeys square corner blocks rising a little higher than the rest at the junctions of the sides, with pyramidal roofs. Blind arcading with 11 bays S range, 6-bays E range and 2-bays in corresponding W range, with thermal windows recessed under semi-circular arches above a band linking the impost blocks. Stable doors in alternate bays on E, in central and end bays on S. Coachhouse with 2 pairs of double doors under billet moulded beam occupies N part of W wing. All brickwork facing courtyard in header bond with dentilled eaves band and chamfered plinth. Stables equipped and in use, with finer stalls in W part of S range. Inner enclosure has 5m high red brick walls in Flemish-bond with corbelled brick capping and pilaster buttresses externally and clasping corners. Outer enclosure has 3m high red brick walls with special coping bricks and external pilaster buttresses dieing into wall at 1.5m. Taller with external offset and round arched gateway on N beside lane to E of stables.
Listing NGR: TL0415011155
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157850
- 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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