Buckland House
BUCKLAND HOUSE, HIGH ROAD (A10)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176027
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Buckland House
- Statutory Address:
- BUCKLAND HOUSE, HIGH ROAD (A10)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176027
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Buckland House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUCKLAND HOUSE, HIGH ROAD (A10)
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:
- BUCKLAND HOUSE, HIGH ROAD (A10)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buckland and Chipping
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 35632 33818
Details
TL 3533 BUCKLAND HIGH ROAD (A10) (East side) Buckland
5/41 Buckland House 22.2.67
GV II*
House. Early C18, probably for Ralph Freeman. Red brick chequered with black headers and steep hipped roofs now slated. A 2 storeys and attics, T-plan house facing W with 3 lateral rear-wall chimneys to front range and internal chimney in N service range at change from 2 to one storey. A fine parapeted W front, symmetrical, with a broad projecting centre. 2:3:2 windows with central door, moulded brick cornice, 2 hipped dormers behind parapet, plinth and flush box sash windows with broad ovolo moulded glazing bar, 6/6 panes, rubbed brick flat arches with projecting stepped white keystones, and bracketed sills. Elaborate centrepiece of a pilastered Venetian window with dentilled cornice and ogee tracery in the (blind) sidelights and rounded head, and an Ionic doorcase below with key pattern frieze, modillioned cornice, and three-quarter columns with an early C18 6-panel raised and fielded door with H hinges inside. Parapet absent at sides and rear. Stepped rear wing plastered. Half octagonal bay window to parlour at N end. Largest room in middle of front range has wide E fireplace with a shortened moulded wooden lintel from a late C16 house of consequence probably the manor house of the joint manors of Buckland and Horne on this site. Diagonal tiled floor of black and white tiles copying the contemporary marble floors. 6-panel moulded doors. Later staircase beyond an arch at N with turned balusters, cut string stair, and decorated brackets. (VCH (1914) 42, 45: Pevsner (1977) 117: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3563233818
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160262
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1914), 42,45
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 117
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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