Wych Elms

WYCH ELMS, 3, DEARD'S END LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1174282
Date first listed:
14-Jan-1977
List Entry Name:
Wych Elms
Statutory Address:
WYCH ELMS, 3, DEARD'S END LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1174282
Date first listed:
14-Jan-1977
List Entry Name:
Wych Elms
Statutory Address 1:
WYCH ELMS, 3, DEARD'S END 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WYCH ELMS, 3, DEARD'S END LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Knebworth
National Grid Reference:
TL 24541 20439

Details

TL 22 SW KNEBWORTH DEARD'S END LANE (west side)

3/135 No 3 (Wych Elms) 14.1.77

GV II

House. 1912, by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Red brick. Steeply pitched plain tile roof. 1 storey and attics. Long range. 2 deep panelled ridge chimney stacks. Entrance on right centre in a 2- storey gabled bay. Glazed door with simple moulded hood, the gable with a twin casement and flanked by hipped casement dormers. Tile creasing. Larqe 4-liqht casements each side of door. Left end has casement corner windows of 4 large lights, the ground floor open in centre. Tile-hung gable. (Lutyens Arts Council Catalogue, 1981).

Listing NGR: TL2454120439

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
162082
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Arts Council of Great Britain Catalogue in The Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens 1889-1944, (1981)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Wych Elms

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