Walkern Hall
WALKERN HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101390
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Walkern Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WALKERN HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101390
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Walkern Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALKERN HALL
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:
- WALKERN HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Walkern
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 30006 24922
Details
TL 22 SE WALKERN CLAY END TL (south side)
3/1 & 4/1 Walkern Hall
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GV II
Country house. C18 N wing possibly cl8lO by Geo Smith for J Gosling. S wing and NE service wing 1827-30 by J Pemberton for J Izzard a Baldock brewer, interior has work of late C19. Stucco on brick, lined as ashlar, with Portland stone faced plinth and suppressed slate roof. Painted stucco features. A substantial, 3 storeys, double-pile house, 5 windows wide, facing W. 2- storeys wings 2 windows wide only a little lower, with corner pilasters and same bold frieze and cornice as main block. Greek doric porch with paired columns and full entablature now glazed. Large semi-octagonal bay window to ground floor of each wing, with tall sash windows set in round-headed recesses. Band at sill level of 1st floor windows continues round bay of each wing. Recessed sash windows with 6/6 panes, 3/3 to top floor. 3- storeys, 5 windows rear facade corresponds but windows altered on left half for later stair. S wing only extends to rear and has its main facade to S. N end has a single storey projection with 3 round-arched openings of 2 recessed orders: door in centre, and smaller door with radial fanlight on left and radial glazing to sash window on right. Long 2-storeys service wing in grey brick with gauged flat arches and unusual 3-light horizontally sliding windows. Hipped slate roof with plastered eaves soffit. Set in ornamental grounds with a ha-ha to the W, in the medieval hunting park of Walkern manor. Known as Clay Hall before C20. (Pevsner (1977) 373: RCHM Typescript: G Curtis A Chronicle of Small Beer 1970).
Listing NGR: TL3000624922
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159668
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Curtis, G, A Chronicle of Small Beer, (1970)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 373
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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