Gosmore House
GOSMORE HOUSE, HITCHIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295446
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gosmore House
- Statutory Address:
- GOSMORE HOUSE, HITCHIN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295446
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gosmore House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOSMORE HOUSE, HITCHIN 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:
- GOSMORE HOUSE, HITCHIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Ippolyts
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 18735 27247
Details
ST IPPOLLITTS HITCHIN ROAD TL 1827 (East side) Gosmore
8/36 Gosmore House - - II
House. N wing early C16, main range mid C17, S end C19 or C20. Timber frame, largely cased or replaced by brick, stuccoed exterior, steep old red tile roofs. A large 2-storeys asymmetrical house set back in grounds, facing W. At N a 2-storeys crosswing adjoining site of former small open hall replaced by an internal-chimney, lobby-entry plan range with hall to N of stack, parlour to S of stack and stair probably to rear of stack. W front has gabled crosswing at LH and 3 small gables above the main upper floor windows each with bargeboards and pendants. Label mouldings over main windows and arched over upper window in LH gable. Small-panes casement windows of 3-lights generally. Projecting flat roofed central porch with half-glazed door with flat moulded hood on shaped brackets. Moulded cornice to 2-storeys semi-octagonal bay window on N end. Large internal central chimney with 3 conjoined diagonal shafts. Interior has wallplates of C16 crosswing lower than tie-beams of hall range. Chamfered and hollow stopped axial beams in hall range. Original timber lintel to fireplace raised. Partition on 1st floor over crossbeam in large room to S of chimney. Clasped-purlin roof with long straight wind-braces. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1873527247
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162648
- 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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