Real Tennis Court and Exhibition Centre
REAL TENNIS COURT AND EXHIBITION CENTRE, HATFIELD PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296204
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Real Tennis Court and Exhibition Centre
- Statutory Address:
- REAL TENNIS COURT AND EXHIBITION CENTRE, HATFIELD PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296204
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Real Tennis Court and Exhibition Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- REAL TENNIS COURT AND EXHIBITION CENTRE, HATFIELD PARK
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:
- REAL TENNIS COURT AND EXHIBITION CENTRE, HATFIELD PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Welwyn Hatfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hatfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 23570 08521
Details
Old Hatfield TL 2308 HATFIELD HATFIELD PARK (west side)
15/145 Real Tennis Court and Exhibition Centre -
GV II
Real Tennis Court and Riding School, the latter now an exhibition centre. Built 1840 by the Second Marquess of Salisbury. Facade to Palace courtyard is a Tudor style composition with imitation windows, 2 storeys and attics. Red brick. Plain tiles. 2 light blank windows faced with Welsh slate. Gables with roundels. Left side projects forward slightly and has 2 gables and a small gabled tower on right. 2 4-centre arch moulded brick doorways. Right side has a crow-stepped gable over a 3-light elliptical-arched 1st floor window. Similar right hand tower completes the picturesque group. Plain brick rear elevations, the tennis court with continuous upper-floor bands of sash windows. Interior of tennis court has York stone floor with original numbered markings painted on floor and walls. Sloping roofs over 3 colonnaded viewing galleries. One of four or five such courts in the country.
Listing NGR: TL2357008521
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158408
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 21 Hertfordshire,
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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