Shendish House and Attached Walled Garden and Octagonal Summerhouse
SHENDISH HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLED GARDEN AND OCTAGONAL SUMMERHOUSE, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174090
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Shendish House and Attached Walled Garden and Octagonal Summerhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SHENDISH HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLED GARDEN AND OCTAGONAL SUMMERHOUSE, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174090
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Shendish House and Attached Walled Garden and Octagonal Summerhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHENDISH HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLED GARDEN AND OCTAGONAL SUMMERHOUSE, LONDON 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:
- SHENDISH HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLED GARDEN AND OCTAGONAL SUMMERHOUSE, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kings Langley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 05790 04315
Details
KINGS LANGLEY SHENDISH TL 00 SE off London Road 7/166 Shendish House (DRG (Shendish)Leisure Centre) and attached walled garden and octagonal summerhouse
GV II
Country house on a manorial site with attached walled garden and octagonal summerhouse, now a leisure centre. 1854-6 for Charles Longman (1809-73) a partner of John Dickinson and an heir to the publishing house of Longmans. Garden room wing dated 1871, new entrance porch 1902, garden porch dated 1910. Grey brick with Bath stone dressings and chimneys. Portland stone plinth, and steep graduated slate roofs. 2 storeys, attics and basement. A large L-shaped Jacobean style house facing E with a rectangular walled garden attached to its NW corner with an octagonal summerhouse at its SW angle. Near symmetrical 5-part E front with corresponding stepping of roofline and separate stone gable parapets and end chimneys to each part. Slightly projecting 3 windows wide centre with large canted bay window to ground floor rising from basement area with stone balustrade. Small semi-octagonal bay central on 1st floor flanked by square headed 2-light stone windows with labels. Parapet carried up in. centre as gabled dormer with ogee coping to gables and large central finial. Narrower bays to each side have similar features above ground floor but 2 2-light windows on ground floor at LH and original square projecting stone porch with '1855' on parapet. Projecting gabled end wings have shaped gable parapets, central finial, and square-headed 2-light windows to each floor. Arcaded stone porch and adjoining lobby added to LB wing in 1902 in same style. Large entrance hall with staircase to rear with tall mullioned and transomed stone window and twisted turned balusters to each step. Arcaded screen and elaborate Jacobethan fireplace in entrance hall. Similar screen in garden room. Dado panelling and deep strapwork frieze in S rooms, and ornate French rococo white marble chimneypiece in bar. Grey brick S front to walled garden with 3 Tudor arched entrances and pilasters alternating with piers. Iron gate 1898. Roofless octagonal summerhouse with steps, damaged mosaic floor and carved stone decoration. (John Evans The Endless Web (1955)90, 207-8).
Listing NGR: TL0579004315
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157696
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Evans, J, The Endless Web, (1955), 90, 207-8
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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