The Bridgewater Arms Hotel
THE BRIDGEWATER ARMS HOTEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174551
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Bridgewater Arms Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE BRIDGEWATER ARMS HOTEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174551
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Bridgewater Arms Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BRIDGEWATER ARMS HOTEL
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:
- THE BRIDGEWATER ARMS HOTEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Gaddesden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP9920913671
Details
LITTLE GADDESDEN LITTLE GADDESDEN
SP 9913 (East side)
9/186 The Bridgewater Arms
- Hotel
GV II
Hotel. C18, with C19 lower end extensions. Red brick with vitrified
headers and lighter red arches. Hipped slate roofs. A compact 3-storeys,
3 windows long block with lobby-entry and internal chimney a third from
N end. Round headed tall recess with nameboard above C19 gabled Gothick
timber porch. 6-panel door in heavy frame. Graduated heights of recessed
sash windows with flat gauged arches and 3/3, 3/6, 6/6 panes from top to
bottom. Overhanging eaves with plastered soffit. Short S wing has one
window over an early C19 projecting stucco porch with Doric columns,
full entablature and blocking course. Round headed doorway with
fanlight. 1½ storeys N wing formerly single storey but extended and
floored in early C20. 4 segmental headed windows rise through eaves, and
2 long 3-light casements with flat gauged arches below floor band. Bulky
mansarded rear wing not of special interest. Interior has central
chimney partly cut away, and axial beams, chamfered where exposed in 2
rooms, with ogee stops of 2 patterns.
Listing NGR: SP9920913671
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157717
- 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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