Abbot's House
ABBOT'S HOUSE, 10, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296402
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Abbot's House
- Statutory Address:
- ABBOT'S HOUSE, 10, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296402
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Abbot's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBOT'S HOUSE, 10, HIGH STREET
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:
- ABBOT'S HOUSE, 10, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Three Rivers (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Abbots Langley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 09464 02103
Details
TL 0902 ABBOTS LANGLEY HIGH STREET (Northwest side) Abbots Langley
11/33 No. 10 1.9.53 (Abbot's House)
GV II
House. C16, altered and heated mid C17. Largely rebuilt c.1700, extended late C19 and c.1900. Originally timber framed, rebuilt and cased in red brick, some rendering and sham timber framing. Hipped tiled roof. Originally a hall with cross wing to left. Rebuilt as symmetrical 3 window front, double depth house. Roof raised, 2 storeys and attic. Central entrance in original screens passage position: 6 fielded panelled door, semi-circular traceried fanlight, panelled round headed reveal, Roman Doric doorcase with half-columns, entablature, open pediment. Broadly spaced glazing bar sashes, flush frames, gauged brick flat arched heads, tripartite on outer bays. Modillioned eaves cornice. Abbot medallion inserted to centre below eaves. C17 ridge stack to right of centre with cornice, 3 clustered octagonal shafts. C17 stack to left end. Left return has ground floor French doors, first floor 3 light casement with arched heads to each light, cambered outer head, a gabled 2 light dormer. Extruded stack towards rear, some original framing exposed to rear of this stack. Rear elevation has projecting gable end of original cross wing. Ground floor conservatory. First floor and attic 3 light casements, sham timber framing which continues across rear elevation. To centre a large 16 pane staircase sash. To left and projecting less is an early C20 gabled block with a 1 storey hipped projection. Right return from front has French doors, a sash in a reveal and towards rear a c.1900 rendered rectangular bay. Interior: ground floor stop ovolo moulded binding beam in original cross wing, main stair is early C19 with moulded newel posts and hand rail. Some C17 cigar balusters re-used in secondary stair in wing. (RCHM Typescript: Pevsner 1977).
Listing NGR: TL0946402103
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158679
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
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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