Fanhams Hall With Buildings on Courtyard (The Building Societies Staff College)
FANHAMS HALL WITH BUILDINGS ON COURTYARD (THE BUILDING SOCIETIES STAFF COLLEGE), FANHAMS HALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1281155
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Fanhams Hall With Buildings on Courtyard (The Building Societies Staff College)
- Statutory Address:
- FANHAMS HALL WITH BUILDINGS ON COURTYARD (THE BUILDING SOCIETIES STAFF COLLEGE), FANHAMS HALL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1281155
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Fanhams Hall With Buildings on Courtyard (The Building Societies Staff College)
- Statutory Address 1:
- FANHAMS HALL WITH BUILDINGS ON COURTYARD (THE BUILDING SOCIETIES STAFF COLLEGE), FANHAMS HALL ROAD
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:
- FANHAMS HALL WITH BUILDINGS ON COURTYARD (THE BUILDING SOCIETIES STAFF COLLEGE), FANHAMS HALL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wareside
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3715015620
Details
TL 31NE
2/34
24.1.67
WARE RURAL
FANHAMS HALL ROAD
(north side)
Fanhams Hall with buildings on courtyard (The Building Societies Staff College)
(Formerly listed under General)
GV
II*
Country house and outbuildings, now a staff college. Early C18
greatly enlarged and altered in 1898 - 1901 by W Wood Bethell for
Richard Benyon Croft. Bought by Westminster BAnk 1950, and
Building Societies Association 1971. E wall of 3-storeys brick
house of c1715 exposed only in interior courtyard (top floor
c1800). 3-windows wide with flat arches and aprons to windows
with moulded floor bands. Encased and extended as an irregular
3-storeys Jacobean style mansion, roughcast with stone dressings
and mullioned and transomed windows and bays. Steep red tile
roofs behind parapet. Projecting double height hall-range on N
with long-gallery over. The E entrance front has a 3-storeyed
central porch, and is of 8-bays. The W garden front has 3-bays
of 3-storeys, and the hall-wing to the left of 2-storeys, 2-bays
wide, projecting 5-bays forward. The courtyard facade is of 15
bays and 2-storeys. The courtyard entrance is by a round arch
with an ogee hood mould, flanked by twin 2-storey towers with
pyramid roofs. Single-storey cottages built on to retaining wall
and square towers stand at the angles. Exit from court by
archway under clock tower with refaced C18 one and a half storeys
Old Coach House attached. Circa 1965 bedroom wing in outer yard
(car park) not of special interest. Splendid contemporary
interiors in Arts and Crafts style with plasterwork by L A
Turner, stained glass by Morris and Co. in Library, oak panelling
and beamed ceilings, carved stone chimney pieces, and walnut
panelling of lounge inlaid with mother-of-pearl. Fine C18
staircase retained. 2 carved Venetian stone wellheads, one by
service door and one to N of main door. (Pevsner (1977) 382:
RCHM Typescript: papers at house).
Listing NGR: TL3715015620
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 356050
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 382
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 21 Hertfordshire,
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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