Shenley Hall

SHENLEY HALL, RECTORY LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1175524
Date first listed:
06-Apr-1977
List Entry Name:
Shenley Hall
Statutory Address:
SHENLEY HALL, RECTORY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1175524
Date first listed:
06-Apr-1977
Date of most recent amendment:
12-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Shenley Hall
Statutory Address 1:
SHENLEY HALL, RECTORY LANE

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
SHENLEY HALL, RECTORY LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Hertsmere (District Authority)
Parish:
Shenley
National Grid Reference:
TL 19427 00973

Details

TL 10 SE SHENLEY RECTORY LANE (Southeast side) Shenley

3/279 Shenley Hall 6.4.77 (formerly listed as Shenley Hill House under Mimms Lane) - II

Country House, now offices. 1906 by F.T.Baggallay for a Mr.Hore. 1914 additions by Sir E.Lutyens for S.de la Rue, extended later C20. Stuccoed brick. Machine tiled roof. Wrennaissance Style. 2 storeys. 7 bay front, 2:3:2. Central 3 bays under broken mutuled pediment with cartouche and swags. Entrance in porch with attached Greek Ionic doorcase, foliate frieze, pediment broken at base and apex. Glazing bar sashes with architraves, keyed on ground floor and first floor centre. Double step back to flanking bays with quoins at angles. Glazing bar sashes in deep reveals. Mutuled eaves cornice. Double span hipped roof. Roughcast capped stacks flanking central 3 bays and on left hip. Attached to right and set back is 2 bay addition by Lutyens. Right return: 2 ground floor windows with quoined surrounds. First floor: 3 medallions with festoons, flanking slit windows. Plat band returned. Rear: 2:3:2. Centre: large ground floor bow, entrance to right under semi-circular hood. Parapet ramped up to short piers between bays. Hexagonal ridge turret, bellcote with ogee dome and weathervane. Attached to front left are rambling 2 storey extensions. Glazing bar sashes. Cornice below coped parapet. Interior: stairs, panelling, plasterwork and chimneypieces in C17 and C18 styles. The billiard room is by Lutyens and has Ionic columns and marble chimney pieces. Attached to right end of front wall is a low red brick wall by Lutyens with a round-headed entrance, pilasters and pantile coping. (Pevsner 1977).

Listing NGR: TL1942700973

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Legacy System number:
164334
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)

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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