Marlborough Buildings
MARLBOROUGH BUILDINGS, HATFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173192
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Marlborough Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- MARLBOROUGH BUILDINGS, HATFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173192
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Marlborough Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARLBOROUGH BUILDINGS, HATFIELD ROAD
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:
- MARLBOROUGH BUILDINGS, HATFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 15064 07433
Details
HATFIELD ROAD 1. 1582 Marlborough Buildings
TL 1507 SW 10/28 8.5.50.
II
2. 3 sides of an open courtyard of 2-storey almshouses in red brick, built by Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, in 1736. Facade restored 1850: interior unharmed. Deep eaves below steep tiled roofs with 10 tall brick stacks. Central 3 windows and the end facades of the wings are spanned by pediments, the central pediment enclosing the Marlborough arms carved in stone. The whole building on a low stone plinth and bound by a continuous stone band between floors. Transomed and mullioned windows have modern lead glazing in a fancy pattern. 11 windows and 9 windows along the central and each flank range respectively. 9 plain doors at intervals, in simple stone architraves with flat stone hoods. Central 3 windows dressed with stone. VCH, page 473.
Listing NGR: TL1506407433
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163308
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1914), 473
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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