Ash View Rest Home on East Corner With Bell Lane
ASH VIEW REST HOME ON EAST CORNER WITH BELL LANE, WARE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176979
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ash View Rest Home on East Corner With Bell Lane
- Statutory Address:
- ASH VIEW REST HOME ON EAST CORNER WITH BELL LANE, WARE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176979
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ash View Rest Home on East Corner With Bell Lane
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASH VIEW REST HOME ON EAST CORNER WITH BELL LANE, WARE 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:
- ASH VIEW REST HOME ON EAST CORNER WITH BELL LANE, WARE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Widford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 41624 15654
Details
TL 4115 WIDFORD WARE ROAD (south side) Widford village
5/9 Ash View Rest Home (formerly Walnut Tree House) on E corner with Bell Lane
GV II
House. Early C18 centre part, extended to W in mid C19 (after Tithe Map of 1839), to NE in 1893 (plaque inside), and to E and S in 1901-2. From c1880 the various extensions for G S Pawle Esq by H A Pelly. A large 2 storeys pink-washed brick house with grey brick exposed on rear wing. Front range roofed in bands of plain and scolloped buff tiles. Slate roofs elsewhere. The oldest part in the middle has 3-bays defined by giant order brick pilasters with interrupted floor band between, and formerly gable chimneys. The pilasters have a delicate moulded necking a deep frieze and a moulded cornice with narrow dentils. 3 flush box sash windows with moulded architraves and Gothick tracery. Right hand bay has a Classical C19 stucco 1 storey enclosed porch with Composite order pilasters and a full entablature with dentilled cornice. Glazed double doors with Gothick tracery. To the right hand a mid C19 higher 2 storeys crosswing with low slated hipped roof and a large upper oriel window with ogee swelled base over a 3-light lower window. In the last stage of extensions the front was extended a further 3-bays to the E in a vigorous Arts and Crafts Style and the new banded buff tiled roof was extended over the older middle part where the projecting rafter feet give the impression of a dentilled cornice. 3 sash windows with Gothick tracery grouped to centre with 2 lower upper-floor windows over the outer windows below. A small triangular rooflight with deep ornamental bargeboard- is centralnear the ridge of the roof. The new E external gable. chimney has the upper floor projected out on heavy moulded wooden brackets to enclose it. Elaborate gable bargeboard with moulded collar and grid of timbers above. An historic picturesque house on a prominent site at the bend of the road when entering the village. Part of a varied group in this part of the Conservation Area.
Listing NGR: TL4162415654
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160051
- 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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