Docwra Manor
DOCWRA MANOR, 1, HITCHIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175493
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Docwra Manor
- Statutory Address:
- DOCWRA MANOR, 1, HITCHIN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175493
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Docwra Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOCWRA MANOR, 1, HITCHIN 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:
- DOCWRA MANOR, 1, HITCHIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pirton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14577 31468
Details
PIRTON HITCHIN ROAD TL 1431 (East side)
7/165 No. 1 (Docwra Manor) 9.6.52 (formerly listed as The Old Hall)
- II
Remaining wing of a larger house, now extended as a house. Built 1609 for Thomas Docwra (dated armorial plaque formerly on W front reset above principal 1st floor fireplace) presumably as a W parlour-wing to an older probably aisled hall-house on E said to have been burned down at beginning of C19 (Newbery (1983)11). Wing converted to an Inn in C19. Large E extensions in later C20 not of special interest. Limestone rubble and flint walling with red brick corners and moulded limestone windows. N gable roughcast. Masonry walling returns only a short way along each end of the E wall of the wing, the rest being timber framed with close-spaced studs and red brick infill where exposed beside the 2-storeys new extension. A large, 2-storeys crosswing planned with 2 large rooms to each floor and a lobby between them with a staircase at its W end. An original large projecting chimney on W side heated the N room on each floor. The S part unheated until a corresponding brick W chimney added in C18. Entrance now by a single-storey flat roofed brick and flint parapeted porch on W of C19 or C20 date, with arched doorway and double doors. Upper rooms lit by tall 3-lights ovolo-moulded stone mullioned window in upper part of each gable end. Wooden C19 ovolo-moulded 3-light sash window to ground floor of gable at each end. Small 1st floor windows on W side retain their ovolo-moulded stone surrounds but are lacking mullions. Lower sill of one near middle indicates a stair window. Original large chimney has sloping offsets, a cross worked in flints, and a moulded brick cornice. This chimney serves a ground floor stone fireplace with 4-centred arched head and moulded jambs. Over the fireplace a plaque with a shield of the Docwra arms and inscription '1609/EN DIEV EST TOVT'. In C19 The Old Oak Public House. (RCHM (1911)164-5: VCH (1912)44-5: Pevsner (1977)270: Newbery (1983)11: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1457731468
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163175
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newbury, M A, A Short History and Guide St Marys Church Pirton Hertfordshire, (1983), 11
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 44-5
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 270
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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