Westbury House Flats 1, 2, 3, 4
WESTBURY HOUSE FLATS 1, 2, 3, 4, LUTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175092
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Westbury House Flats 1, 2, 3, 4
- Statutory Address:
- WESTBURY HOUSE FLATS 1, 2, 3, 4, LUTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175092
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Westbury House Flats 1, 2, 3, 4
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTBURY HOUSE FLATS 1, 2, 3, 4, LUTON ROAD
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:
- WESTBURY HOUSE FLATS 1, 2, 3, 4, LUTON 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 14099 27094
Details
OFFLEY LUTON ROAD TL 1427 (West side) Great Offley
12/114 Westbury House 9.6.52 Flats 1, 2, 3, 4. (formerly listed as Westbury Farmhouse under School Lane)
GV II
Farmhouse, now flats. C15 or early C16 former open hall house with 2-storeys. S crosswing, floor and chimney inserted in hall in later C16 (according to records probably between 1564 and 1569 by Robert Ivory (inf Mrs. Vera Davis)); jettied porch and taller N crosswing probably of that time or early C17, C19 and C20 gabled rear additions. Timber frame on stuccoed brick sill, roughcast. Plaster to ground floor of S wing at front. Roughcast single-storey L-shaped brick outbuilding at S end. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys and attics, H-shaped house facing E set at back of farmyard, with 2 gabled crosswings, gabled jettied porch with pointed archway, and 2-storeys canted bay window to right of porch. Very large internal chimney at junction of centre and N wing with semi-circular attached shaft to broad stepped face of chimney above roof with red brick corbelled cap renewed. Internal gable chimneys at rear gable of each wing. Narrow projecting stair tower in rear angle of centre with N wing. Front has 3-light flush C19 lattice casement windows generally but 2-lights to attic top of gable of N wing. Gabled dormer on N roofslope also lights this attic floor. Interior has elaborately moulded cross-beam carrying inserted floor in hall with hollow moulded bracket support from chamfered post on rear wall. Structure of older S service wing of 2 bays with jowled posts, convex-curved tension braces set inside wall studs, clasped-purlin roof with one purlin in each slope carried on collar-and-queen-struts. Mortices under tie-beam for cross-partition into 2 rooms on 1st floor and presumably for service rooms on ground floor. Edge-halved scarf in wallplate. (RCHM (1911)161: VCH (1912)39: Pevsner (1977)265: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1409927094
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163124
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 39
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
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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