MANOR GARDEN HOUSE

MANOR GARDEN HOUSE, 135, FISHPOOL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1103113
Date first listed:: 08-May-1950
List Entry Name:: MANOR GARDEN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MANOR GARDEN HOUSE, 135, FISHPOOL STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1103113
Date first listed:: 08-May-1950
List Entry Name:: MANOR GARDEN HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MANOR GARDEN HOUSE, 135, FISHPOOL STREET

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:: MANOR GARDEN HOUSE, 135, FISHPOOL STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: St. Albans (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 13950 07426

Details

FISHPOOL STREET 1. (South side) 1582 No 135 (Manor Garden House) TL 1307 SE 7/10 8.5.50.

II*

2. Cl7 house with later improvements. High-pitched, hipped, double-sport, tiled roof with hipped ends to North (street) front of 2 storeys, 4 windows. Coved eaves with slender brackets. Plastered front with pargeted decoration; rendered plinth. 1st floor early C18 sash windows with thick glazing bars in slightly projecting, moulded frames. Ground floor late C17 windows with wood mullions and transoms and leaded casements. Doorcase with plain pilasters and moulded cornice hood to door of 6 fielded panels in panelled reveal. Early C18 south (garden) front of 2 storeys, 4 windows. Pink brick with red brick dressings. Giant pilasters at either side support moulded brick dentil cornice and parapet. Sash windows with glazing bars in near flush box frames under gauged, segmental, brick arches with white keystones. Brick plinth with moulded coping. Inside, 2 rear rooms with early C18 panelling and glazed corner cupboard. Wide, open fireplace under stone, Tudor shaped arch in front room. Panelled staircase with fluted, quasi-Ionic columns, and C17 panelling in 1st floor rooms.

Listing NGR: TL1395007426

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Legacy System number:: 163276
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.