VASSARS
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1102458
Date first listed: 08-Feb-1988
Statutory Address: VASSARS, LONDON ROAD
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Location
Statutory Address: VASSARS, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Hertfordshire
District: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish: Langley
National Grid Reference: TL 21141 23140
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
TL 22 SW LANGLEY LONDON ROAD
(West side)
Langley Bottom
5/72 Vassars
II
House. Later C17, W bay C18, E wing and gabled rear (N) extensions mid
C19, S extension to E wing c.1966, garage wing to NW late C20. Timber
frame cased in painted brickwork, E wing and later extensions painted
brick. Steep old red tile roofs. An irregular Z-shaped house, the oldest
2-storeys range facing S with gabled rear NE stair turret and 2 similar
gables to W at rear added later. Taller E wing of 2-storeys raised over
a cellar. Large internal chimney at junction of these 2 parts.
1½-storeys garage wing extending to N at W end. S front has 3 1st floor
windows with small gables over them. 3-lights flush casement windows.
Similar windows to ground floor with 2-, 5-, and 3-lights. Door between
the latter two. E front of parlour wing has canted bay with sash
windows, segmental arch to cellar below, and on upper window below the
corbelled eaves band. Interior has exposed timbers and shows that the
building was originally of 1½-storeys and 2-bays with end chimneys,
entrance into E room and stair rising out of it. W bay probably C18,
when front wall heightened to full 2-storeys. Clasped-purlin original
roof, long straight tension braces in walls, tie-beams exposed on 1st
floor. Axial chamfered floor beams with ogee stops. Interesting
fireplace in W chimney with recesses in semi-circular back. The Three
Horseshoes P.H. during the C19. Large oval terracotta relief portrait
medallion and name plaque of Tennyson C19 by Doulton formerly on the
Birkbeck Bank, Holborn, built into N wall of garage 1967. (RCHM
Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL2114123140
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 162864
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.
End of official listing