Aston Bury Manor
ASTON BURY MANOR, ASTON BURY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1174988
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Aston Bury Manor
- Statutory Address:
- ASTON BURY MANOR, ASTON BURY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1174988
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Aston Bury Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASTON BURY MANOR, ASTON BURY 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.
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:
- ASTON BURY MANOR, ASTON BURY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 27606 21702
Details
TL 22 SE ASTON ASTON BURY LANE (west side)
3/20 Aston Bury Manor (formerly listed as 20.10.52 Aston Bury)
GV I
Manor house. Mid Cl7 (heraldic door spandrels of 1540-45 reused in doorway to E stair) for Cason family. Restorations: 1883 for Captain W E F O'Brien; 1908-9 for Vernon Malcolmson by Forsyth and Maule. Adapted for educational use by Hertfordshire County Council c1972. Ground floor walls of flint, banded with brick and with brick dressings; first floor of timber framing infilled and faced with brick. Steep old red tiled roofs. A long rectangular block of 2 storeys, cellars and attics, facing N with 2 large gabled stair wings at rear. The house is remarkable for the symmetry of all the elevations and the original upper floor plans. Ground floor had a passage separating the hall on LH leading to main stair and parlour, from service rooms and elaborate second staircase. The twin staircases are a remarkable feature, each approached separately and serving a pair of principal 1st floor rooms with pairs of lesser rooms between, the rear one lit by a balustraded grille from the staircase. This design is to eliminate the need to approach one room through another. The 2nd floor was a long gallery with plastered waggon ceiling, 2 fireplaces, and gable end windows as well as 4 dormers, now partitioned into bedrooms. 7 windows long symmetrical N front with 4 shaped gables alternating with hipped dormers behind linking parapets. 4-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed windows in moulded brick surrounds, with leaded glazing. Central gabled porch c1908 protects square-headed moulded entrance doorway with moulded oak doorframe. Moulded string at 1st floor and eaves level. Mullioned windows to cellar to right of porch. Buttresses on end walls at corners. End gables have sinuous double-curved brick coping and paired ornamental chimney stalks each side of centre with spurred caps. 2 groups of 3 similar shafts rise from rear wallhead. Lofty ground floor rooms and lower floor level at W end former kitchen, with very wide lintoled gable fireplace and blocked 4-light heavy oak ovolo-moulded window in rear wall. E open-well staircase with closed string, bi-symmetrical turned balusters, and heavy square newels, rises to attic level and has tall finials on corner newels composed of an obelisk on balls raised on an arched pierced base. Acorn finials and arabesque decorated wooden band fixed to string and floor-edge at landings. W staircase of similar design but with more traditional pierced Jacobean finials. High walls extend to rear to enclose a small terraced garden with a 4-centred arched gateway in each side. (Country Life 26.3.1910, 450-8: RCHM (1911) 42-3: VCH (1912) 54-5: Pevsner (1977) 79: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL2760621702
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159552
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 54-5
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 79
Country Life in 26 March, (1910), 450-8
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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