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
- List Entry Name:
- Admiralty House
- Statutory Address:
- ADMIRALTY HOUSE, WATFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101566
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Admiralty House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ADMIRALTY HOUSE, WATFORD ROAD
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:
- 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
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
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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