Charter Tower
CHARTER TOWER, QUEENSWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1262943
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1948
- List Entry Name:
- Charter Tower
- Statutory Address:
- CHARTER TOWER, QUEENSWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1262943
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1948
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Feb-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Charter Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHARTER TOWER, QUEENSWAY
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:
- CHARTER TOWER, QUEENSWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 05478 07715
Details
QUEENSWAY 1. 5252 (North Side) Charter Tower (formerly listed under Bury Road) TL 0507 1/24 18.6.48.
II* GV 2. C16, remnant of former Manor House of Sir Richard Combe. Ashlar, 2 storeys with porch on ground floor. 2 superimposed orders with attached columns, Doric to ground floor. Square plan. Panel below lst floor window carved with arms, much worn, almost obliterated, of Sir Richard Combe, owner and builder of house (on site of earlier house) between 1557 and 1595 Until recently ivy covered. VCH, p 220; RCHM, p 110. AM.
Charter Tower and Manor House Garden Walls form a group.
Listing NGR: TL0547807715
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433704
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1908), 110
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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