DANCERS HILL HOUSE

DANCERS HILL HOUSE, DANCERS LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1103562
Date first listed:: 20-May-1949
List Entry Name:: DANCERS HILL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: DANCERS HILL HOUSE, DANCERS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1103562
Date first listed:: 20-May-1949
List Entry Name:: DANCERS HILL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: DANCERS HILL HOUSE, DANCERS LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: DANCERS HILL HOUSE, DANCERS LANE

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Hertsmere (District Authority)
Parish:: South Mimms and Ridge
National Grid Reference:: TQ 23508 99378

Details

TQ 29 NW POTTERS BAR DANCERS LANE (East side) Dancers Hill

8/200 Dancers Hill House 20.5.49

- II

Large house. c.1750-60. Altered c.1820. Extended and remodelled c.1860 and after. Built for Charles Ross. Stuccoed brick, slate roof. Elongated Palladian villa. 3 storeys to original entrance front. Original 5 bays, 1:3:1, slightly projecting central feature. Ground floor: open triple arcade, groin vault. Principal floor: attached Roman Doric order. Pilaster strips continue emphasis of centre through cornice to parapet. 2 bays added to right, 5 to left. Glazing bar sashes throughout. False window, right of centre on 2nd floor. Early C18 ovolo moulded thick glazing bars on ground floor to right and first floor to left of central bays. Plat band between 2 lower storeys. Continuous timber modillion eaves cornice below parapet. Four cross axial stacks and left end stack. Right return wall has a French window in an aedicular surround. Garden front: 8 bays, 2 storeys, basement banked up in early C19. 3 bays to centre of original villa project slightly under pediment. Glazing bar sashes. Panelled door to right with side and top lights. Far right 3 bays set back with ground floor lean-to conservatory in front. Interior: saloon on principal floor behind triple arcade which probably led to an open loggia behind original portico. To left timber pergola link to brick stores cottage with hipped slate roof. 2 storeys. Dentilled brick courses. Later extensions. C18 grounds laid out with avenue to N. (VCH Middlesex 1976)

Listing NGR: TQ2350899378

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 164253
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cockburn, J S, King, H P F, McDonnell, K G T, The Victoria History of the County of Middlesex, (1976)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.