Nettleden House
NETTLEDEN HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174380
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Nettleden House
- Statutory Address:
- NETTLEDEN HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174380
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Nettleden House
- Statutory Address 1:
- NETTLEDEN HOUSE
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:
- NETTLEDEN HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Nettleden with Potten End
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 02126 10548
Details
TL 01 SW NETTLEDEN WITH NETTLEDEN POTTEN END (North side)
3/214 Nettleden House - (Formerly listed as Nettleden)
GV II
Parsonage, now a private house. 1856 by Lady Marion Alford jointly with her son John William Spencer, 2nd Earl Brownlow, an amateur architect. Red brick in English-bond, diapered in blue brick on S front, buff brick raised quoins and dressings to openings with stone windows and chamfered plinth offset. Steep brown tiled roofs banded with scalloped tiles. A large 2-storeys house in a Free Jacobean Style set in terraced gardens overlooking the village from the N. Gabled 1½-storeys stables a little to W now linked to main house. Linking garage block not of special interest. S front has 3 gables over mullioned stone windows to 1st floor, semi-octagonal stone mullioned bay window on LH and buttress between 2 3-lights mullioned and transomed stone windows. Wooden sliding sashes set between mullions. Stone string course. Tall twisted grouped moulded brick chimney shafts with spurred caps. Arched openings to porch recessed in SW corner of house with battened door. Terra cotta plaque over entrance with 'B' and coronet over and '1856'. Large carved stone armorial achievement projects at SW corner of S front. Built to house Rev G.S. Cautley formerly tutor to the Earl Brownlow. Cost £2657.14s.5d. (VCH (1908) 317: Pevsner (1977) 258: inf from Mrs. Jean Simpson).
Listing NGR: TL0212610548
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157995
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1908), 317
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 258
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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