Gamels Hall, and Gamels Keep
GAMELS HALL, AND GAMELS KEEP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177296
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Gamels Hall, and Gamels Keep
- Statutory Address:
- GAMELS HALL, AND GAMELS KEEP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177296
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gamels Hall, and Gamels Keep
- Statutory Address 1:
- GAMELS HALL, AND GAMELS KEEP
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:
- GAMELS HALL, AND GAMELS KEEP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hertford Heath
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 35026 12672
Details
TL 31 SE LITTLE AMWELL RUSH GREEN
2/72 Gamels Hall, and 24.11.66 Gamels Keep (formerly listed as Gamel's Hall)
- II
House, now 2 houses. C17, altered and brick cased in C18, extensions to E and W in C19 and C20. Timber frame cased in red brick in Flemish-bond. Steep pitched roof now covered in slates. A 2-storeys and attics house facing N, gabled short 2-storeys projection on S side, and 2-storeys extensions at each end. N front has 2 box dormers on roofslope, large end-chimneys, flush-box sash window with 6/6 panes over central entrance, 2 similar windows to RH and one window to LH. Ground floor has corresponding windows altered in C19 to recessed 2/2 panes sashes with rendered reveals and flat arch. 6-panels fielded door in C18 Doric wooden doorcase, semi-circular fanlight, and triangular open pediment. S front has flush-box sashes, one in central projection with tall narrow recesses on returns. Extensions set back from S front with canted roof between. Interior has C18 staircase, 6- and 4-panelled doors with cyma mouldings. H-hinges to cupboard doors. SE room has C18 wooden chimneypiece and dentilled cornice. Part moated site. (RCHM (1911)142: VCH (1912)409: Pevsner (1977)235).
Listing NGR: TL3502612672
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160678
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 409
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 235
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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