SAYESBURY MANOR COUNCIL OFFICES

SAYESBURY MANOR COUNCIL OFFICES, BELL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101687
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1981
List Entry Name:: SAYESBURY MANOR COUNCIL OFFICES
Statutory Address:: SAYESBURY MANOR COUNCIL OFFICES, BELL STREET

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Date:: 2006-04-27
Reference:: IOE01/15100/02
Rights:: © Mr Peter L. Herring. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101687
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1981
List Entry Name:: SAYESBURY MANOR COUNCIL OFFICES
Statutory Address 1:: SAYESBURY MANOR COUNCIL OFFICES, BELL STREET

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:: SAYESBURY MANOR COUNCIL OFFICES, BELL STREET

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Sawbridgeworth
National Grid Reference:: TL 48234 14776

Details

BELL STREET 1. 5253 (South Side) Sayesbury Manor council offices TL 4823 1477:3/29 II 2. Circa 1780, possibly earlier house remodelled. Early C19, 1-bay extension to W and extensive outbuildings to N. Set back beyond car park and originally facing S. Carpenter's Gothic 2 storey timberframed and stuccoed house with steep hipped roof now slated. Originally symmetrical 7-window S front with gable chimneys, extended 1 bay to W in matching style. Flush box sashes to 1st floor with 6/6 panes and label dripmoulds rising to blunt point in centre. Uniform French windows to Gd floor are later. Flat soffit to eaves overhang has alternately lion masks biting rings and smaller lion masks. Early C19,6 panel central flush door with reeded mouldings around panels. C18 decorative wooden Gothic porch with flat top. 2 free- standing columns and 2 half columns at wall and full entablature. Columns consist of 4 clustered colonnets with annulets projecting. Frieze of sunk trefoils, tongued brackets, and a coved and arched cornice. Pattern derived from Batty Langley's Gothic Architecture Restored and Improved of 1741. Central stair with rooms each side. Rear half has lower 1st floor under continuation of main roof with staircase expressed as a higher gabled central feature on N. Columned porch on N probably added when this became entrance front. Interior much altered. Panelled room at SE of Gd floor may be original. Stair balustrade altered. A range of lower stuccoed timberframed buildings with slate roofs runs N from the NE part of the house, described in the deeds as domestic offices, archway, harness room, and stable, this with its axis parallel with the house. Known as Roselands in the C19, the name was changed to Hatters Croft in 1902 and to Sayesbury Manor in 1939 (EHDC Deeds). The Gothic porch is the most elaborate example of 4 in the town.

Listing NGR: TL4823414776

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Legacy System number:: 160739
Legacy System:: LBS

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Langley, B, Gothic Architecture Restored and Improved, (1741)

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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.