Mock Ruin in Garden of Longcroft
MOCK RUIN IN GARDEN OF LONGCROFT, HUNSDONBURY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101945
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-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-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Mock Ruin in Garden of Longcroft
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOCK RUIN IN GARDEN OF LONGCROFT, HUNSDONBURY
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159992
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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