Blue Court

BLUE COURT, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1296200
Date first listed:
22-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:
Blue Court
Statutory Address:
BLUE COURT, CHURCH LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1296200
Date first listed:
22-Oct-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
Blue Court
Statutory Address 1:
BLUE COURT, CHURCH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BLUE COURT, CHURCH LANE

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:
Kings Langley
National Grid Reference:
TL 07258 02525

Details

KINGS LANGLEY CHURCH LANE TL 0702 (North side) 13/122 Blue Court 22.10.52 (formerly listed as Blue Court Hotel)

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House, now offices. '1830' on E gable, renovated 1981 when interior reconstructed and gabled rear wing and E terrace added. Buff brick with red rubbed brick arches. Rusticated stucco to basement. Moulded wooden cornice to eaves and pediments. Slate roof. A large symmetrical classical villa of 2-storeys, attics and basement (extended to E under terrace) facing S, with W gable to High Street. 5 windows wide S front with advanced centre of 3 windows with pediment and oval window in tympanum. Heavy pilastered doorcase with entablature to central double doors with rectangular fanlight up 6 stone moulded steps. Recessed sash windows with 6/6 panes and flat gauged arches. Ground floor windows flanking door are set in arched recesses with narrow impost blocks linked to door surround. W gable pedimented with oval attic window, triple sash window to 1st floor and similar ground floor window in a large arched recess. Twin projecting chimneys cut through the raking pediment and drag the horizontal pediment up in swept curves each side. Corbelled oversailing chimney tops. Balustrade with dies around terrace on E. Formerly called Pole House. (KLLHMS report (1979) in NMR).

Listing NGR: TL0725802525

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
157650
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Kings Langley Local History and Museum Society Report in Kings Langley Local History and Museum Society Report, (1979)
Kings Langley Local History and Museum Society Report in Kings Langley Local History and Museum Society Report, (1979)

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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