GLEBE HOUSE MONTAGUE HOUSE THE OLD RECTORY

GLEBE HOUSE, HIGH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1103607
Date first listed:: 14-Sep-1949
List Entry Name:: GLEBE HOUSE MONTAGUE HOUSE THE OLD RECTORY
Statutory Address:: GLEBE HOUSE, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1103607
Date first listed:: 14-Sep-1949
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:: GLEBE HOUSE MONTAGUE HOUSE THE OLD RECTORY
Statutory Address 1:: GLEBE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:: MONTAGUE HOUSE, KEMP PLACE
Statutory Address 3:: THE OLD RECTORY, HIGH 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GLEBE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: MONTAGUE HOUSE, KEMP PLACE
Statutory Address:: THE OLD RECTORY, 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:: TQ 13075 95219

Details

TQ 1395 BUSHEY HIGH STREET (South side) Bushey

13/110 The Old Rectory and 14.9.49 Glebe House (formerly listed as the Rectory)

GV II

House, now 3 dwellings. Early C17 extended early C18. Refronted c.1745, altered and extended 1762, C19 and 1901. Timber frame core, cased in red brick. Some weatherboarding and stone dressings. Tiled roofs. Rambling, much enlarged building, originally 4 bays with 2 cross wings. 2 storeys and attics. Front: central entrance in C19 gabled porch: double doors in pointed arch, decorative leaded lights on stone and brick plinth, sham timber framing in gable, cusped bargeboard. Single casement over porch to left. Ground floor left and first floor 3 light casements. Ground floor right C19 canted bay. Gabled cross wings project slightly at ends, 2-light casements and weatherboarded gables. To far right projecting forward is c.1900 conservatory. Boxed eaves to large steeply pitched roof. Ridge tallest to right of centre, hipped down twice to left, once to right. Large C17 central ridge stack with clustered square shafts with oversailing caps. Left return: ground floor brick, 2-light casement with segmental head. Rendered gable with exposed purlins. Towards rear a lean-to with an entrance leads to later C18 block with gable end to left: 2 ground floor 2-light casements with segmental heads. To rear twin gabled early C18 block of 4 bays behind original range, casements with segmental heads. 2 plat bands. Coped gables. Large cross axial stack at junction with the later C18 block to right. Ground floor 3- light casements with segmental heads, that to centre half blocked, first floor 2-light casements and 1 blind window, ridge stack. The 1901 block, date on rainwater heads, projects to rear left or to right from front. To garden this block has a multi-gabled elevation. To left: 2-storey projecting canted bay, French windows and sashes, hipped roof. To centre: 6-light ground floor casement, first floor oriel with a casement to left. To right: a large gable over a canted bay. Cross axial stacks. Interior: early C18 dining room and staircase. (RCHM Typescript: Pevsner 1977: G.Bailey and G.Longman, Bushey:Then and Now vol.6, 1971). Includes Montague House, Kemp Place.

Listing NGR: TQ1307595219

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 164158
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Bailey, G, Longman, G, Bushey Then and Now, (1971)
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.