Hindsmount
HINDSMOUNT, MAYDENCROFT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102543
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hindsmount
- Statutory Address:
- HINDSMOUNT, MAYDENCROFT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102543
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hindsmount
- Statutory Address 1:
- HINDSMOUNT, MAYDENCROFT LANE
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:
- 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.
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