HUNSDON MILL HOUSE WITH ATTACHED STABLES,COACH HOUSE AND RETAINING WALLS

HUNSDON MILL HOUSE WITH ATTACHED STABLES,COACH HOUSE AND RETAINING WALLS, MEAD LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176643
Date first listed:: 19-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: HUNSDON MILL HOUSE WITH ATTACHED STABLES,COACH HOUSE AND RETAINING WALLS
Statutory Address:: HUNSDON MILL HOUSE WITH ATTACHED STABLES,COACH HOUSE AND RETAINING WALLS, MEAD LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176643
Date first listed:: 19-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: HUNSDON MILL HOUSE WITH ATTACHED STABLES,COACH HOUSE AND RETAINING WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: HUNSDON MILL HOUSE WITH ATTACHED STABLES,COACH HOUSE AND RETAINING WALLS, MEAD LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: HUNSDON MILL HOUSE WITH ATTACHED STABLES,COACH HOUSE AND RETAINING WALLS, MEAD LANE

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hunsdon
National Grid Reference:: TL 42064 11375

Details

TL 41 SW HUNSDON MEAD LANE (west side) Hunsdon Pound

2/18 Hunsdon Mill House with Attached Stables, - Coach-house and Retaining Walls

GV II

House, stables, coach-house and retaining walls. C17 re-using C16 moulded beams, extended and faced in brick in mid C19 (probably c1854 when tax returns interrupted (HRO inf)), altered and extended at rear c1912. Whitewashed brick and red tiled roofs. Red pantiles to lower stable and slate with gaps to coach-house, both attached and with old red brick side and rear walls, and C17 retaining wall. A rambling 2 storeys U-shaped house facing S, With 3 parallel pitched roofs. S front of 3 irregular gables and narrow entrance bay between older E range (timberframed C17, cased in brick, with steeper roof and central chimney) and pair of mid C19 ranges on W. 5 recessed sash windows with segmental arches and 6/6 panes. E range has a triple window Ground floor canted bay with tile arches c1912. 3 arched sash windows with Gothic tracery to left of door. Panelled half-glazed door, with 4-centred head and Gothic tracery, in a wooden doorcase with panelled pilasters supporting carved brackets and flat hood. E front has 3 sash windows with segmental arches. Central triple sash window on Ground floor, and small stair window. W front has 2 sash windows to C19 part on right but 2 small-paned 2-light casement windows to short 2 storeys rear extension c1912. This appears to have been a partial rebuilding of the lower 2 storeys brick stable building, the rest of which extends to N and has a lower coach-house with hipped slate roof extending W from it. A C17 brick wall bounds the W side of the yard and forms the W and N walls of the coach- house and emerges as a buttressed retaining wall running N from the NE corner of the stable. There is a 2 storeys lower hipped - roofed plastered extension of c1912 on the W side of the E range near its N end. Inside: restrained grey marble C19 fire surrounds, moulded 6-panel doors, 2 massive roll-moulded C16 tie beams re-used as axial floor beams in the C17 E range, and an unusual cast iron fire surround with intaglio decoration in the middle room in E range. An historic house with features of many periods. Part of a group with the bridge and Hunsdon Pound House.

Listing NGR: TL4206411375

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 159998
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.