Hamels Mansion
HAMELS MANSION, HAMELS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173201
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Hamels Mansion
- Statutory Address:
- HAMELS MANSION, HAMELS LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173201
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Hamels Mansion
- Statutory Address 1:
- HAMELS MANSION, HAMELS 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:
- HAMELS MANSION, HAMELS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Braughing
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 37547 24546
Details
TL 32 SE BRAUGHING HAMELS LANE (south side)
5/8 Hamels Mansion (formerly listed as Hamels) 22.2.67
GV II
Country house, now offices and flats. Early C19 (between 1820 and 1834) for Miss Catherine Mellish, incorporating parts of the C17 fabric. Main stair early C20. Converted in 1970's. Red brick, some reused, with stucco dressings and slate roofs behind parapets. A Gothic design - an early instance of accurate reconstruction of an historical style - showing knowledge of engravings of the earlier house. SW corner turret was possibly built on existing foundations. 2-storeys and attics with moulded brick plinth, floor band, eaves band, parapet, and gable parapets with finials. Mullioned and transomed windows with labels. Tall moulded chimney shafts. Buttressed S front has 2 straight sided gables flanking a dutch gable with a central 2-storeys canted bay window. Rectangular battlemented oriel on SE corner. Tall octagonal SW turret with pepper-pot cap and vane. Small octagonal corner turrets to 2-storeys projecting porch on W side with pointed arched doorway and window over. Tall projecting chimney to right with false medicolations and tall heraldic panels. Interior has elaborate moulded plaster ceilings, a fine C18 cut sting staircase with twisted balusters and several C18 fine marble fire surrounds.
Listing NGR: TL3754724546
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161233
- 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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