Hare Street House
HARE STREET HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176454
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hare Street House
- Statutory Address:
- HARE STREET HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176454
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hare Street House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARE STREET HOUSE
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:
- HARE STREET HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hormead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3901829821
Details
TL 3929
12/70
19.10.51
HORMEAD
HARE STREET
(East side)
Hare Street House
GV
II*
House. C16 or early C17 N wing of house with kitchen wing to rear (NE),
incorporated into tall double-pile house of later C17 probably built for
William Brand between 1673 and his death in 1676, brick front early-mid
C18 for Houblon family or for William Benn Sheriff of Herts 1739, Lord
Mayor of London 1747, died 1755, internal alteration 1904-14 for Robert
Hugh Benson, restored 1962 for Cardinal Godfrey. Timber frame plastered
with panelled pargetting, red brick front and a hipped old red tile roof
with gabled NE rear wings. A large 2-storeys and attics double-pile
plan house facing W set back behind a high wall. Fine C17 octagonal tall
red brick chimneys with moulded caps and bases in 2 groups of 2 and 3 in
N range. Symmetrical red brick W front 5 windows wide with plinth, floor
band, moulded cornice and parapet concealing 3 hipped dormers. Flat
gauged arches and sash windows with 6/6 panes. Pedimented doorcase with
Roman Doric pilaster. Interior has 2 Tudor arched fireplaces in N wing
on 1st floor, early C18 boxed sash window with thick ovolo moulded
glazing bars on 1st floor at S end, with double hung shutters in a box
below the sill, and a moulded dado, panelled staircase at rear with
carving and wood sculptures by Gabriel Pippit, butt-purlin roofs
generally but clasped purlin roofs in N range and attached to NE a
former 2-bay kitchen with inserted floor but cambered tie-beam with
slots for arched braces and a clasped purlin roof. Associated with
R.H. Benson who lived and worked here from 1903/4 up to his death in
1914. (RCHM (1911)103 No. 8: VCH (1914)69: Pevsner (1977)156: Jackson
(1983)17).
Listing NGR: TL3901829821
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160291
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1914), 69
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 156
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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