Corneybury
CORNEYBURY, ROYSTON ROAD (A10)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1101809
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Corneybury
- Statutory Address:
- CORNEYBURY, ROYSTON ROAD (A10)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1101809
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Corneybury
- Statutory Address 1:
- CORNEYBURY, ROYSTON ROAD (A10)
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:
- CORNEYBURY, ROYSTON ROAD (A10)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wyddial
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 35811 30706
Details
TL 33 SE WYDDIAL ROYSTON ROAD (A10) (East side)
1/143 Corneybury 19.10.51
GV II*
Manor house. Probably late C16 in origin, early C17 N front with wings remodelled 1681 for Charles Crouch ('1681 CC' on rainwater heads), W front remodelled in C18, and house renovated for William Butt in early C19 (V & A Wallpaper Bk for 1826-29 has paper for Drawing Rm). Red brick of differing periods with steep old red tile roofs. An irregular house lying E-W with E shaped symmetrical formal N front of projecting porch and flanking wings. 2 storeys and attics with lower part at SE. N front has gables to projecting wings and central feature with moulded brick gable parapets, oval attic windows in square frames, 3-light mullioned and transomed windows. Leaded glazing with iron opening lights. Late C17 central Ionic porch with pediment and 6-panel door. Pedimented brick aedicule (restored) above with statue of Juno. The front of the NW gabled wing has been re-erected fronting a short extension to that wing (prob in 1681) with a large chimney backing onto the window openings. Parapeted and gabled contemporary W end altered in C18 by addition of a 2-storeys segmental brick bay window with segmental arched windows and insertion of sash windows, deeper on Gd floor, but side windows there altered to triple sashes in early C19. S front has 3 + 1 sash windows on each floor with 6/6 panes, and round headed windows to low SE part probably a former conservatory. (RCHM (1911) 245: VCH (1914), 114, 116-117: Pevsner (1977) 142: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3581130706
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160364
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1914), 114,116-7
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 142
Victoria and Albert Wallpaper Book in Victoria and Albert Wallpaper Book, (1829)
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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