HAMMONDS END HOUSE

HAMMONDS END HOUSE, REDBOURNE LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1295656
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1955
List Entry Name:: HAMMONDS END HOUSE
Statutory Address:: HAMMONDS END HOUSE, REDBOURNE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1295656
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1955
List Entry Name:: HAMMONDS END HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HAMMONDS END HOUSE, REDBOURNE LANE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: HAMMONDS END HOUSE, REDBOURNE LANE

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: St. Albans (District Authority)
Parish:: Harpenden Rural
National Grid Reference:: TL 12374 12241

Details

TL 11 SW HARPENDEN RURAL REDBOURN LANE (south side ) 5/107 Hammonds End House

11.8.55 II*

Small country house. Circa 1700-10. Dark red brick with lighter red brick dressings. Plain tile hipped roof. 3 storeys over cellar. 5-window E elevation. 3-window N elevation, formerly the entrance front, but door now blocked. Floor bands. Deep wooden eaves cornice. On N side the cornice has mouldings below eaves and door has a richly carved scrolls and figured keystone, and segmental pedimented hood. 8 fielded panels. 1st and 2nd floor windows above door with key blocks. Gauged brick lintels to all sides. W elevation has similar central door, but with simpler scrolls and hood. Later glazed fan. All attic windows are original 2-light mullioned casements. Others are C19 sashes or cross-bar casements, but on left ground floor on W side are 2 oak cross-bar casements with leaded lights. 1st and 2nd floor central W windows with scalloped lintels. Interior has staircase hall at right angles to N entrance. Barleytwist balustrading; leaf scrolls to treads. 1st floor landing has good moulded arch to N side rooms, these with original panelling. Ground floor rooms with fielded and bolection moulded panelling. Another principal room in SW angle. Service stair adjacent with good moulded balusters up to attic. Large inglenook in kitchen. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL1237412241

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Legacy System number:: 163641
Legacy System:: LBS

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