Rooks Nest House Howards
ROOKS NEST HOUSE HOWARDS, WESTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1176972
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Rooks Nest House Howards
- Statutory Address:
- ROOKS NEST HOUSE HOWARDS, WESTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1176972
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Jan-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Rooks Nest House Howards
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROOKS NEST HOUSE HOWARDS, WESTON ROAD
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:
- ROOKS NEST HOUSE HOWARDS, WESTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Stevenage (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 24438 26721
Details
1.
5257 WESTON ROAD
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Howards
TL 22 NW 4/156
I
2.
C17 or earlier, refronted C18. Main structure timber framed. Front wall red brick
with some grey headers. Old tiled roof with 2 gabled lattice casement dormers.
2 storeys and attics; 1st floor 3 casement windows with glazing bars under cambered
arches; ground floor 1 similar casement, French window on left, canted bay window
on rignt. Large central chimneystack. Interior : ground floor bressummer to wide
fireplace, timber framework exposed in some rooms, C18 fielded panelled doors. The
original of the house in E M Forster's. novel 'Howards End' which describes the
architecture and the countryside setting. Often visited by Forster. Graded
I for historic interest and literary associations.
Howards shall be amended to read Rooks Nest House (Howards)
Listing NGR: TL2443826721
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158120
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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