Glebe House
GLEBE HOUSE, PIPERS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1173673
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe House
- Statutory Address:
- GLEBE HOUSE, PIPERS HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1173673
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLEBE HOUSE, PIPERS HILL
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:
- GLEBE HOUSE, PIPERS HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Gaddesden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 02738 11126
Details
GREAT GADDESDEN PIPERS HILL TL 01 SW (North side) 3/114 Glebe House 26.1.67 (Formerly listed as Nos 4/6 Pipers Hill)
GV II*
Vicarage, later cottages, now one house. C15 or earlier former open hall house of unusual 'Inverted Wealden' type. Late C16 porch and S end with front lateral chimney. Early C17 W-wing and floor and chimney inserted in old hall. C19 brick casing later than Buckler drawing of 1830s in HRO. Timber framed, part roughcast, exposed close-studding with plastered infill panels on upper floor of porch and W wing, red brick casing in irregular bond, Flemish-bond to ground floor of W wing, steep old red tile roofs. Plan remarkable in combining a square, formerly open, hall with smoke-blackened rafters, and a 2-storeys jettied parlour bay on S (service bay and cross-passage to N destroyed) built at the same time, with the W wall of the hall built in line with the projecting upper storey of the S bay rather than in line with its set-back lower-storey (Cf The Manor House, Aldbury). 1 1/2-storeys short block added to S end in C16 with fine 2-storeys W porch combined with a front-wall chimney. Early C17 chimney stack built in hall backing onto cross-passage when hall floored and new 2-storeys service wing of 4 structural bays added running W from the hall. A large 1½- and 2-storeys, L-shaped house facing W. 4 lattice leaded casement windows. 2-storeys jettied gabled W porch, the lower part in red brick with hollow-moulded square surround to Tudor arched entrance with label and stops. On a stone over the doorway on the RH is cut 'Thomas Whitehead 1699' - he was the vicar then. 2-light window over. Battened front door. 2 windows on each floor of S face of W wing. 3-light flush casement windows with iron opening lights. Added gable chimney. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL0274211127
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157893
- 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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