MACKERYE END

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1103672
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:: MACKERYE END
Statutory Address:: MACKERYE END

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1103672
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:: MACKERYE END
Statutory Address 1:: MACKERYE END

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:: MACKERYE END

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: St. Albans (District Authority)
Parish:: Wheathampstead
National Grid Reference:: TL 15610 15582

Details

TL 11 NE WHEATHAMPSTEAD MACKERYE END

3/461 Mackerye End

19.10.53

GV I

Large manor house. 1665 (date plaque on right gable). Red brick. Plain tile roof. Symmetrical front with projecting wings. Contemporary rear kitchen wing in timber frame with red brick infill. 2 storeys and attics. 1:5:1 windows. The wings have Holborn gables and large Tudor-style chimney stacks with square bases and 3 octagonal shafts, the centre ones patterned. Central porch has voussoired brick arch in square frame, Doric pilasters and segmental pediment. Continuous plinth, floorband and moulded brick cornice. The windows have raised brick surrounds and gauged flat lintels. They were lowered in the C18 and have C19 mullioned and transomed casements. 2 hipped dormers in centre. Contemporary wooden bell turret with arched openings and an ogee leaded canopy surmounted by a tall finial and weathervane. N elevation has a blocked doorway to the staircase hall. Simple brick pilasters and pediment. S elevation has gabled porch with simple arched opening; C18-19 stone sundial on wall near front gable. Kitchen wing on rear S side is 2 storeys and attics. Light box frame construction. Large red brick stack on E side has multiple square shafts in stepped formation. 2 hipped casement dormers. Gabled rear projections. Early C19 extension towards S. Main block has a late C19 rear corridor extension. Inside the house was modified in the mid C18, when the central and northern ground floor rooms received rococo plasterwork. Central corridor was probably inserted at this time. Outstanding feature is the 1665 open-well staircase on the N side with heavy oak turned balusters and Jacobean-style finials. Adjoining on either side of the front of the house are C17 red brick garden walls, between 2 and 3 metres high, with plinths and brick coping. Terminal C18 square piers. The house was described by Charles Lamb in the 'Essays of Elia'. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL1573815694

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Legacy System number:: 164010
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.