Beacon House
BEACON HOUSE, 15, DEARD'S END LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102763
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Beacon House
- Statutory Address:
- BEACON HOUSE, 15, DEARD'S END LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102763
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Beacon House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEACON HOUSE, 15, DEARD'S END 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:
- BEACON HOUSE, 15, DEARD'S END LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Knebworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 24607 20672
Details
TL 22 SW KNEBWORTH DEARD'S END LANE (west side)
3/136 No 15 (Beacon House) 14.1.77
GV II
House. 1912 by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Neo Georgian style. Red brick with lighter red brick dressings. Steeply hipped pantile roof with 2 central rectangular chimney stacks. Square plan. 1 storey and attics. 5-window road elevation has central pedimented doorcase flanked by 2 flush sash windows each side, the door and windows with shallow panels over. 3 hipped casement dormers. Deep moulded wood eaves cornice. Left elevation has a central shaped gable with an arched window and dormers each side. (Lutyens Arts Council Catalogue, 1981).
Listing NGR: TL2460720672
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162083
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Arts Council of Great Britain Catalogue in The Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens 1889-1944, (1981)
Arts Council of Great Britain Catalogue in The Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens 1889-1944, (1981)
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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