The Red House
THE RED HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295664
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Red House
- Statutory Address:
- THE RED HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295664
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Red House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RED 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:
- THE RED HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Gaddesden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 99612 13012
Details
LITTLE GADDESDEN LITTLE GADDESDEN SP 9913 (East side) 9/195 The Red House -
GV II
Agent's house and Ashridge estate office, now a private house, 1870 for Lord Brownlow, possible incorporating C18 Holly Bush Lodge. Red brick with sandy red brick dressings and polychrome herringbone brick tympana to moulded brick arches. Tall steep old red tile roofs. A large 2 storeys and attics, U-plan house facing W with gabled wooden porch into 2 storeys S wing. Assymetrical 3 windows W front to garden has 1st floor windows carried up as prominent gabled lucarnes with eaves carried forward on timber brackets. Twin lucarnes on LH and larger one on RH each with 2-centred moulded brick arches and scale-pattern polychrome brick tympana above transomed wood casement windows. Similar treatment above deeper ground floor windows with moulded segmental arches. Glazed double doors to middle openings. Arcaded corbelling to eaves and string at upper window cill level. Projecting gable chimneys with corbelled caps, offsets above roof level, verges bracketed out beyond their projection, and monogrammed date plaque. The yards behind the house were the estate workshops. (senar(1983)96).
Listing NGR: SP9961213012
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157726
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Senar, H, Little Gaddesden and Ashridge, (1983), 96
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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