MOCK RUIN IN GARDEN OF LONGCROFT

MOCK RUIN IN GARDEN OF LONGCROFT, HUNSDONBURY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101945
Date first listed:: 19-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: MOCK RUIN IN GARDEN OF LONGCROFT
Statutory Address:: MOCK RUIN IN GARDEN OF LONGCROFT, HUNSDONBURY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101945
Date first listed:: 19-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: MOCK RUIN IN GARDEN OF LONGCROFT
Statutory Address 1:: MOCK RUIN IN GARDEN OF LONGCROFT, HUNSDONBURY

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MOCK RUIN IN GARDEN OF LONGCROFT, HUNSDONBURY

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hunsdon
National Grid Reference:: TL 41423 13061

Details

TL 4113 HUNSDONBURY (east side) 8/20 Mock Ruin in Garden of Longcroft -

G.V. I

Amend grade to read:- II

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TL 4113 HUNSDON HUNSDONBURY (east side)

8/20 Mock Ruin in Garden of Longcroft

GV I

Mock ruin. Circa 1832, probably by C Kemp for Revd Nicolsen Robert Calvert, as a garden embellishment to his rebuilt Tudor style rectory of that date which later became Hunsdonbury qv. Knapped flint with stucco dressings on brick to represent stonework. Facing N, a convincing mock ruin of the lower part of the W wall, of a medieval church tower, now partly covered in creeper. Diagonal corner buttresses with stucco quoins, heavy moulded plinth course, central 4-centred arched doorway with 2 chamfered orders and dripmould with kings' heads as stops. The lower part of a window over the door. Door leads into a small circular vaulted chamber with the walls and vault plastered to represent ashlar. The chamber is covered by a large semicircular earth mound now mostly in the garden of The Gate House. A picturesque Gothic garden building in the form of a mock ruin. Part of a group with Hunsdonbury and the Gate House.

Listing NGR: TL4142313061

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Legacy System number:: 159992
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.