HINDSMOUNT
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102543
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- Statutory Address:
- HINDSMOUNT, MAYDENCROFT LANE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- HINDSMOUNT, MAYDENCROFT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Ippolyts
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 18630 27111
Details
ST IPPOLLITTS MAYDENCROFT LANE
TL 1827 (North side)
Gosmore
8/54 Hindsmount
-
GV II
House. C17, early C18 brick front, altered and extended in early C19
when it was occupied by Sir Samuel Venables Hinde, hero of the Battle of
Salamanca (1812). Timber frame on brick and flint plinth, roughcast, red
brick front, and steep red tile roofs. 2-storeys, internal-chimney,
2-cells, lobby-entry plan house, set back from road, facing S. Rear
extensions and lean-to W end outshut. S front has plinth, plat-band, 2
windows to each floor, door in middle with small oval recess over
containing the figure of a hind. 3-lights flush casement windows
(4-lights to ground floor LH). Sash window with 3/3 panes to single
storey parapeted outshut on LH end. 6-panels fielded door (lower 2
panels flush beaded) in heavy frame under trellis porch. Brick chimney
on ridge in line with door has 2 conjoined square shafts and C19 added
shaft on E side. E gable end has roughcast gable triangle, side purlins,
and canted single-storey bay window. Hinde was the son of
Capt. Robert Hinde of Preston Castle who was Sterne's model for his
character 'Uncle Toby'. House occupied c.1880-85 by Mary Forbes Curling
who wrote on Sterne and Bunyan in Macmillan's Magazine in 1877. (Inf
Mrs. Rance).
Listing NGR: TL1863027111
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162666
- 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