Summerhouse in Grounds of Hertford Regional College

SUMMERHOUSE IN GROUNDS OF HERTFORD REGIONAL COLLEGE, HERTFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1217419
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:
Summerhouse in Grounds of Hertford Regional College
Statutory Address:
SUMMERHOUSE IN GROUNDS OF HERTFORD REGIONAL COLLEGE, HERTFORD ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1217419
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1974
Date of most recent amendment:
13-Sept-1995
List Entry Name:
Summerhouse in Grounds of Hertford Regional College
Statutory Address 1:
SUMMERHOUSE IN GROUNDS OF HERTFORD REGIONAL COLLEGE, HERTFORD ROAD

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SUMMERHOUSE IN GROUNDS OF HERTFORD REGIONAL COLLEGE, HERTFORD ROAD

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Ware
National Grid Reference:
TL 35783 13960

Details

WARE TOWN

TL3513NE HERTFORD ROAD 829-1/13/80 (South side) 14/03/74 Summerhouse in grounds of Hertford Regional College, Ware Centre (Formerly Listed as: SCOTT'S ROAD Summerhouse at Ware College of Further Education)

II

Summerhouse. Mid C18, restored mid 1950s. Built by John Scott in the ten acre garden behind Amwell House. Single storey, timber-framed over brick plinth. Colourwashed pebbledash panels, cover pieces to corners, moulded wood cornice. Central door, originally with flat hood on cut brackets. Small circular window either side of door. Hipped pyramidal old tiled roof with half-round ridge tiles over hips, and wooden finial. (Heath C: The Book of Ware. A Portrait of the Town: Chesham: 1977-: 110; Moodey GE: East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter: Hertford: 1955-).

Listing NGR: TL3578313960

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Legacy System number:
412317
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Sources

Books and journals
Heath, C, The Book of Ware A Portrait of the Town, (1977), 110
East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter in East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter, (1955)

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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