Royston Manor House
ROYSTON MANOR HOUSE, 14, MELBOURN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1102011
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Royston Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- ROYSTON MANOR HOUSE, 14, MELBOURN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1102011
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1964
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jun-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Royston Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYSTON MANOR HOUSE, 14, MELBOURN STREET
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:
- ROYSTON MANOR HOUSE, 14, MELBOURN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Royston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 35669 40727
Details
1. 5255 MELBOURN STREET (North Side) No 14 (Royston Manor House) (formerly listed as Royston Manor House and Royston Branch County Library) TL 3540 1/72 14.6.64. II* 2. Early C18. Red stretchers, grey headers, old tiled roof. 2 storeys, basements and attics. Stone plinth and chamfered quoins, 1st floor band. 3 box dormers, 5 sash windows in flush frames with moulded sills and cutter flat arches. 6 fielded panelled door and oblong traceried fanlight in architrave surround under hood on carved consoles. Back elevation in plum coloured brick with red brick dressings. Mansard old tiled roof with 2 box dormers behind stone coped parapet. Plinth, 1st floor band, brick modillioned cornice, central pedimented projection. 2:4:2 sash windows with glazing bars in reveals under flat arches. Central pair of 1st floor windows in surround with sill on consoles, reeded Doric pilasters, entablature with breaks forward over pilasters. Ground floor combined central window and half glazed door in surround of Doric half columns under entablature with pediment, triglyphs and guttae. Later lower recessed wing on right of red brick with 2 sash windows.
Listing NGR: TL3567040729
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161820
- 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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