VASSARS

VASSARS, LONDON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1102458
Date first listed:: 08-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: VASSARS
Statutory Address:: VASSARS, LONDON ROAD

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Date:: 2007-03-14
Reference:: IOE01/16271/10
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1102458
Date first listed:: 08-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: VASSARS
Statutory Address 1:: VASSARS, LONDON ROAD

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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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

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

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Legacy System number:: 162864
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.