PORT HILL HOUSE

PORT HILL HOUSE, BYDE STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268980
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: PORT HILL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: PORT HILL HOUSE, BYDE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268980
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: PORT HILL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: PORT HILL HOUSE, BYDE STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: PORT HILL HOUSE, BYDE STREET

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hertford
National Grid Reference:: TL 32153 13326

Details

HERTFORD

TL3213SW BYDE STREET, Bengeo 817-1/15/274 (North side) 12/04/73 Port Hill House (Formerly Listed as: FARQHUAR STREET Porthill House)

II

House, formerly farmhouse. C17, altered C19 and C20. Colourwashed brick north range, stuccoed south range. Old tiled double gabled roofs. Double-depth plan, with entrance now central against extended house. 5 bays, originally 3. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. North elevation of first floor has three 4-light wood casement windows with divided glazing, alternating with 2-light, that right of centre extended downwards to form landing window; plat band at first-floor level. Ground floor with two 2-light and two 4-light wood casement windows, with broad 4-light casement windows in outer bays left and right, beneath segmental brick arches. Central Regency style porch with cambered segmental arch and a concave metal canopy roof; early C20 half-glazed door and sidelights beneath broad segmental traceried fanlight. Single storey lean-to at left. South elevation remodelled early C20, 5 bays with 2-light and 4-light metal casement windows with leaded glazing. Recessed loggia in centre on ground floor. Attics with 3 gabled casement dormers on north and south elevations. Red brick chimneys, those on east above substantial external chimneybreasts, with long cream tapered terracotta pots with projecting rims. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Port Hill House was the home of Thomas Dimsdale, the pioneer of Smallpox inoculation, and the building was known as 'The Inoculation House'. In 1763 The Old Pest House (qv) was built to the south on a plot adjoining Dimsdale's garden. (Hertfordshire Countryside: Roberts E: Thomas Dimsdale and the Victory over Smallpox: -1980: 20-1).

Listing NGR: TL3215313326

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 461272
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Hertfordshire Countryside' in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1980), 20-21

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.