Offley Place (Hertfordshire Educational Department Residential Centre) And Linked North Service Block
OFFLEY PLACE (HERTFORDSHIRE EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT RESIDENTIAL CENTRE) AND LINKED NORTH SERVICE BLOCK, KINGS WALDEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174815
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Offley Place (Hertfordshire Educational Department Residential Centre) And Linked North Service Block
- Statutory Address:
- OFFLEY PLACE (HERTFORDSHIRE EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT RESIDENTIAL CENTRE) AND LINKED NORTH SERVICE BLOCK, KINGS WALDEN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174815
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Offley Place (Hertfordshire Educational Department Residential Centre) And Linked North Service Block
- Statutory Address 1:
- OFFLEY PLACE (HERTFORDSHIRE EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT RESIDENTIAL CENTRE) AND LINKED NORTH SERVICE BLOCK, KINGS WALDEN ROAD
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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:
- OFFLEY PLACE (HERTFORDSHIRE EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT RESIDENTIAL CENTRE) AND LINKED NORTH SERVICE BLOCK, KINGS WALDEN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Offley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14511 27004
Details
OFFLEY KINGS WALDEN ROAD TL 1426 & TL 1427 (East side) Great Offley
12/96 & 13/96 Offley Place 9.6.52 (Hertfordshire Educational Department: Residential Centre) and linked N service block
GV II
Country house, now in educational use. 1806-10 by Sir Robert Smirke for Rev Lynch Salusbury incorporating C17 E wing of manor house of Offley St Ledgers (recased), stair tower reduced to general height 1929 for Colonel Acland. Used for educational purposes since 1943. Red brick in Flemish-bond with white brick dressings, front range stuccoed in later C19. Hipped slate roofs. A tall symmetrical Gothick 3-storeys house facing W set in parkland to N of parish church, and formerly with a higher square central crenelated stair tower with 3 clearstorey windows in each face reminiscent of Wyatt's design for Ashridge. Diagonal buttresses to angles (paired corner buttresses added to 3-storeys old E wing). 5 windows wide W front has narrow projecting central bay, gabled, with diagonal buttresses and projecting Gothick porch with pointed archway and rib-vaulted ceiling. 2-light mullioned and transomed windows, smaller windows to 2nd floor. These windows have wooden sliding sashes. Neale engraving shows twin canted single-storey crenelated bay windows on S end, now gone. E face of this S end still in original brickwork with tall pointed niche with gauged brick vaulted head. Rectangular 2-storeys service wing to N has square corner turrets with pointed slits. 2 linking contemporary single-storey ranges with disproportionately large painted corbels below eaves. Original interior arrangement had Drawing Room on S of entrance with Dining Room to rear of it: Breakfast Room on N of entrance with small Parlour to rear. Lofty ground floor of older E wing was the Library. Entrance into wide stone paved hall by glazed timber Gothick screen, archway to square central stair hall with three pointed windows in sides and lay-light under a lantern. Single stair up sides of tower and stone steps down to library. Copper Arts and Crafts chandelier hanging central. Heavy pointed double doors with narrow panels with cusped heads. SW room has C18 white marble classical fire surround. Upper floors have 6-panels moulded divided doors. Former library has 4-centred stone fireplace and twin coved niches on W wall with shaped shelves. (RCHM (1911)161: Pevsner (1977)265: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1451127004
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163106
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 265
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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