Garston Manor
GARSTON MANOR, HIGH ELMS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173003
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Garston Manor
- Statutory Address:
- GARSTON MANOR, HIGH ELMS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173003
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Garston Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARSTON MANOR, HIGH ELMS LANE
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:
- GARSTON MANOR, HIGH ELMS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Three Rivers (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Abbots Langley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 11110 01583
Details
TL 10 SW ABBOTS LANGLEY HIGH ELMS LANE (Southwest side) Garston
4/26 Garston Manor
GV II
Country house, now medical rehabilitation centre. Early C19, extended c.1870 for C. Watney and c.1920 for Bourne family. Yellow stock brick with stone dressings. Slate roofs. Neo-Classical and Neo-Georgian Styles. 2 storey earlier blocks, 3 storey later block. Original 4 bay front to centre facing garden. 7 bays added to left. 7 bays to right later. Double depth. Garden front, originally entrance front. Late C19 ground floor projection to centre, outer French doors, inner sashes, gauged brick flat arched heads. Balustraded parapet to balcony. First floor glazing bar sashes, 1 door, flat arched heads. Stone cornice. Gable end stacks with stone caps. Projecting slightly to left is late C19 block with central French doors in stone architrave with segmental pediment on consoles. Flanking architraved sashes with stone sill band, first floor sashes smaller, that to centre tripartite, stone band to corbelled cornice. 2 ridge stacks flanking central bay. Hipped roof. Block to right has 2 bays projecting less than 5 outer bays. An entrance and small sashes in link section. Three 24 pane sashes with key blocked architraves, moulded sills to ground floor ballroom. First floor is as earlier block. Cornice to coped parapet with ball finials. Gable end stacks. 3 flat topped dormers. 3 bay right return has a former entrance with architrave, bracketed hood, key blocked architraves to flanking sashes. 3 bay left return of late C19 block has centre bay tripartite sashes. Present entrance front is all late C19 except early C20 block to left. Central entrance in 7 bay block to right, architraved, as opposing elevation. Projecting to left 7 further bays, similar,roof hipped to right. 3 storey early C20 block to left projects further with a 5 bay front, ground floor and first floor central sashes have plain stone surrounds, bracketed sill to lugged architrave and segmental pediment on first floor, second floor central tripartite sash, stone key blocks to flanking first floor windows. Recessed panels in parapet, coped with ball finials. End stacks. Hipped roof. Interior: mosaic paving to staircase hall with gallery, top-lit, neo-classical plasterwork and overdoors. Late C19 Persian Room with decorative copper plates on leather doors, Persian tiled fireplace. Early C19 secondary stair with vase balusters. Garston Manor was known as High Elms until 1895. Late C20 additions not of special interest.
Listing NGR: TL1111001583
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158672
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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