Witches Hollow
WITCHES HOLLOW, RINGSHALL DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174755
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Witches Hollow
- Statutory Address:
- WITCHES HOLLOW, RINGSHALL DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174755
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Witches Hollow
- Statutory Address 1:
- WITCHES HOLLOW, RINGSHALL DRIVE
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:
- WITCHES HOLLOW, RINGSHALL DRIVE
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:
- SP 98989 13576
Details
LITTLE GADDESDEN RINGSHALL DRIVE SP 91 SE (West side) Ashridge Park 1/216 Witches Hollow -
GV II
House, sometime on inn. C17, converted to 2 houses in late C17 or early C18, altered c.1850, converted to one house 1936. Timber frame cased in red brick with brick extensions and old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys and cellar house facing W with 4 windows to 1st floor, 2 2-storeys rectangular hipped bay windows, casement windows between with lobby entrance opposite large internal chimney a third from N end surmounted by a cruciform diagonally set shaft. A pair of diagonally set square shafts to S gable chimney with single-storey extension to S. Small brick vaulted oven in N room, and cellar under rear wing at NE. Gabled stair turret with herringbone brickwork on flank above roof of entrance lobby at E, with timber framed gabled porch. Interior shows walls heightened by 2ft, and new roof propped off old roof. Frame has jowled posts, tie-beams and braces cut through, and wide spaced studs in front and rear walls. Side purlin roof to NE rear wing with jowled posts. Chamfered axial floorbeams. Formerly on inn on the route to Berkhamsted crossing the main road to W of house now stopped up. Associated with Rosina Jane Massey who was reputed a witch locally in the mid C19.
Listing NGR: SP9898913576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157747
- 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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