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ADMIRALTY HOUSE

ADMIRALTY HOUSE, WATFORD ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101566
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1985
Statutory Address:: ADMIRALTY HOUSE, WATFORD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101566
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1985
Statutory Address 1:: ADMIRALTY HOUSE, WATFORD ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ADMIRALTY HOUSE, WATFORD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Three Rivers (District Authority)
Parish:: Batchworth
National Grid Reference:: TQ 10331 91878

Details

TQ 19 SW WATFORD RURAL WATFORD ROAD (Southeast side) Northwood

10/348 Admiralty House

GV II

House. c1898-1901, extended 1906. By M. Macartney for a Dutch patron. Red brick. Tiled roof. Domestic Revival/Queen Anne Style with informal entrance front and formal garden front. 2 storeys and attic. 4 bay block to right on entrance front, left half of which projects slightly with entrance. Door recessed behind a round arch to a groin vaulted bay. To right of entrance on ground floor a lunette. A moulded string course separates storeys. 2 first floor oculi with key blocks and gauged brick surrounds. Quoined return angles. Mutuled deep eaves. Hipped roof. 2 bays to right have white timber mullion and transom casements with moulded and gauged brick flat arched heads. An extruded stack between these 2 bays has a panelled shaft and over- sailing cap. Plinth. Plat band. To left of entrance block and set well back 4 bays with similar casements and 1 hipped dormer to left. Further left is service range with 2 tall 6 light stair windows. Stacks with oversailing caps. Outshuts with hipped roofs, 1 with a large lunette window. Right return from front: ground floor round headed window with Doric pilaster mullions, decoratively leaded windows, keyed surround, first floor 8 light casement. Garden front: symmetrical 7 bays, canted bay to centre with brick quoining and central French window, casements else- where, key blocked heads on ground floor, moulded lintels on first floor. Plinth. Plat band. 4 hipped dormers. End stacks with panelled shafts and oversailing caps. Set back to left: ground floor round headed French window as on right return. 2 first floor cross casements. Set back to right: 3 bays of service wing. Interior: 2 bay groin vaulted entrance hall. A good Neo-Georgian plasterceiling. Vase balusters and moulded handrail on stair. Formerly known as Frithwood House. (Pevsner 1977).

Listing NGR: TQ1033191878

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 158993
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.