Oakmere House
OAKMERE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103568
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Oakmere House
- Statutory Address:
- OAKMERE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103568
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Oakmere House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OAKMERE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- OAKMERE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Hertsmere (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 26258 01359
Details
TL 20 SE POTTERS BAR HIGH STREET (East side) Potters Bar
5/215 Oakmere House -
- II
House, now in community use. 1840, altered 1860's, extended and altered later. Stuccoed red and stock brick, slate roof. Neo-classical. 2 storeys. Front: projecting wings flank 3 bay centre. Ground floor sashes and central entrance, all round-headed, set in a Tuscan distyle portico in antis. First floor set back, larger central window with lugged architrave and keystone block, window to right blocked. Single bay wings have pedimental gables and sashes. Continuous ground floor banded rustication. String course at first floor sill level. Continuous modillioned cornice. Parapet. Left return external stack. Right return large projecting bay with pedimental gable. Ground floor glazed distyle portico in antis with banded ornament on columns, egg and dart on capitals and dentilled cornice. First floor windows similar to centre front. To rear 2 storey canted bay and entrance with scroll brackets and keystone block to architrave. To left and set well back a long 2 storey extension with 4 ground floor glazing bar sashes, architraves to first floor windows. Further addition to far left with entrance in aedicular surround. C20 extensions to rear left. Interior: entrance hall to staircase hall. Ornate wrought-iron balusters to open well stair and on first floor gallery. Skylight with plasterwork surround. Lakes in grounds, now a park, to S and E. (Pevsner 1977: VCH Middlesex 1976).
Listing NGR: TL2625801359
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164268
- 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)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
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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