Hill House
HILL HOUSE, ELSTREE HILL SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263366
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Hill House
- Statutory Address:
- HILL HOUSE, ELSTREE HILL SOUTH
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263366
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Hill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILL HOUSE, ELSTREE HILL SOUTH
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:
- HILL HOUSE, ELSTREE HILL SOUTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Hertsmere (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elstree and Borehamwood
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 17744 95086
Details
The following building shall be added:
TQ 1795 ELSTREE ELSTREE HILL SOUTH
11/3 3.2.50 Hill House
II
C18 red-brick mansion with many additions. Main block, mid C18, with two storeys, three dormers in tiled mansard roof behind parapet. Two full-height, three-window flanking bays. Central Venetian window on first floor. On the ground floor the central door and window on either side are now covered by a conservatory filling the space between the bays. Three-window, two-storey-and-dormer wing of same date on left with late C18 or early C19 three-storey wing beyond. The right is a lower (earlier ?) long, two-storey wing with steep, pitched roof and irregularly-spaced windows; beyond this is a C19 cottage, sheds etc. Window glazing mostly modern except in case of late C18 wing. Behind this wing is a taller, three-storey C19 block. Lately bought by Oliver Borthwick as the Memorial "Morning Post" Home.
The building was formerly listed in the London Borough of Barnet.
Listing NGR: TQ1774495086
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432492
- 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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