Hornhill House
HORNHILL HOUSE, OLD SHIRE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296040
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Hornhill House
- Statutory Address:
- HORNHILL HOUSE, OLD SHIRE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296040
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hornhill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HORNHILL HOUSE, OLD SHIRE LANE
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:
- HORNHILL HOUSE, OLD SHIRE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Three Rivers (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 01781 92984
Details
RICKMANSWORTH OLD SHIRE LANE TQ 09 SW (East side) Horn Hill, Chalfont St.Peter 8/212 Hornhill House 16.7.75 (formerly listed as High Trees iii the civil parish of' Chalfont St Peter) II
Large house. 1883. Red brick with stone and timber dressings. Tiled roof. Neo-Georgian Style. 2 storeys and attic. 5 window front, central 3 bays projecting slightly. Hexastyle Roman Ionic stone portico: segmental cornice with broken pulvinated frieze and architrave to centre, quadrant curves back to coupled outer columns. Fielded panelled door with a rectangular fanlight lugged architrave with key block. First floor 3 tall sashes, architraved flush frames, 8 panes. Moulded band at sill level, gauged brick flat arched heads, louvred shutters. Modillioned timber eaves to triangular pediment with stone cartouche in tympanum. Outer bays have ground floor tall sashes with stone key blocks, recessed aprons with moulded bases. Hipped roof. Right return is garden front: symmetrical 5 bays with full height bows at ends. Ground floor timber verandah to central 3 bays, pseudo-Ionic colonnade, coupled outer columns, bracketed entablature. First floor sashes with louvred shutters. 3 sashes on each floor on bows, ground floor key blocks. Plinth, moulded band at first floor sill level, modillioned eaves cornice. 4 light central dormer with cornice and segmental pediment. 2 ridge stacks between outer bays with moulded oversailing caps. To rear: 2 bays with shuttered sashes and a stack. Left return from front: 3 storeys with segmental headed, stained glass stair window. Set back to left is 2 storey service range, sashes, hipped roofs. Interior not inspected. A pioneering work in the Georgian Style.
Listing NGR: TQ0178192984
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158856
- 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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