Manor House
MANOR HOUSE, OXFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102444
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE, OXFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102444
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE, OXFORD ROAD
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:
- MANOR HOUSE, OXFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- King's Walden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 15160 22136
Details
TL 12 SE KINGS WALDEN OXFORD ROAD (north side) Breachwood Green
4/35 Manor House
GV II
House. C16 or earlier jettied crosswing in middle with small part of late medieval hall extending to N. Late C17 wing added at S with extension on its E end c.1954. N part of hall range a C20 extension. Timber frame exposed on jettied upper part of crosswing to E and W with red brick infill. Ground floor plastered. S wing has plastered panels between studs with ground floor of painted brick. Steep old red tile roofs, hipped on S wing. An irregular 2-storeys house facing W. Entrance in middle under jetty of oldest part which unusually has a similar jetty to rear. Casement windows renewed. Bull-nosed joists and brackets to jetties. Interior has exposed framework, one hollow-chamfered jamb and 4-centred-head of one of the twin service doors on the N side of the crosswing formerly giving onto the screens passage showing that this was a service-end crosswing to lower hall extending to N now only fragmentary, with a large internal kitchen chimney inserted. The S wing of 2-storeys has one room on each floor, jowled posts, and large chimney at its junction with the crosswing to N. It has 2 windows looking southward over the now enclosed and built-over green. One window extension to E. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1516022136
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162827
- 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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