Riversdale Mill House
RIVERSDALE MILL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268997
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Riversdale Mill House
- Statutory Address:
- RIVERSDALE MILL HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268997
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Riversdale Mill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- RIVERSDALE MILL HOUSE
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:
- RIVERSDALE MILL HOUSE
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 33605 13881
Details
HERTFORD
TL3313 WARE PARK
817-1/6/357 Riversdale Mill House
30/09/83
(Formerly Listed as:
WARE RURAL
WARE PARK
Riversdale Mill House)
GV II
House. c1800. Ware white brick with slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic square building of unusual form.
Wide gable end faces south to riverside road with symmetrical
3-windows on each floor, the central windows being much
narrower and the 1st-floor window having a lower head. Central
part of roof raised in a top-hamper creating a step in the
gable on each side of the large central attic window. Recessed
sash windows with vertical margin lights, gauged flat arches
and stone sills. Brick plat band crosses gable at eaves level,
interrupted by arches of larger windows to each floor under
flat gauged arches. Slate slab in blind upper opening on east.
Round-headed opening for views down road outside high garden
wall. Square internal chimneys. Narrow verge moulding.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this was the miller's house for the Ware Park
Mill, built 1721 by James Fordham, driven by a mill stream
taken from the River Rib the only over-shot mill in Hertford.
During C19 the mill belonged to JW French & Co of Ware. Of the
once large complex of Mill, maltings and ancillary structures
only the house now survives.
(Green L: Hertford's Past in Pictures: Ware: 1993-: 76-77).
Listing NGR: TL3360513881
The asset was previously listed twice also under the parish of Ware Rural at List entry 1089146. This entry was removed from the List on 10 July 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461245
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 76-77
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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