Benskin's House
BENSKIN'S HOUSE, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1175793
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1975
- Statutory Address:
- BENSKIN'S HOUSE, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1175793
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Jan-1983
- Statutory Address 1:
- BENSKIN'S HOUSE, STATION ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BENSKIN'S HOUSE, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Watford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 10935 97348
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/06/2015
TQ 19 NW
4/20
STATION ROAD
Benskin's House
(Formerly listed as The Clarendon Hotel)
12.9.75
II
1860 by J Livock. Large yellow brick and stucco hotel associated with the station
of 1858. Italianate. Three storey. Hipped slate roof with bracketed eaves, tall
corniced brick chimneys at the corners and central pair of stacks, corniced and linked
by an arch.
Five window range to front, 3 windows to side. 1st floor windows in pilastered
surrounds with moulded caps, egg-and-dart moulded arches over with shell lunettes.
Stucco arches link centre 3 windows of front to form 5 arch feature. Moulded course
above from which break forward panelled sills of 2nd floor windows with brackets
beneath. Stucco surrounds with panels above and console brackets. Sliding sashes.
Stuccoed ground floor front with pilasters and entablature. Central porch with
Tuscan columns and outer square piers. Projecting ground floor to side with large
3-light windows with pilasters flanking central slightly projecting doorcase with
three-quarter columns. Entablature overall. Garden side doorway dated 1860. To
rear stock brick stable with gabled centre and 2 window range each side. Red brick
arched centre window head. Pilaster and entablature treatment to right side ground
floor. Banded brick between pilasters.
The Building News 1860 585.
Listing NGR: TQ1093597348
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158216
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The New Hotel at Watford in The Building News, (1860), 585
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