Breakspear College
BREAKSPEAR COLLEGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296407
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Breakspear College
- Statutory Address:
- BREAKSPEAR COLLEGE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296407
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Breakspear College
- Statutory Address 1:
- BREAKSPEAR COLLEGE, 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:
- BREAKSPEAR COLLEGE, 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 09645 02242
Details
TL 0902 ABBOTS LANGLEY HIGH STREET (Southeast side) Abbots Langley
11/35 Breakspear College 1 .9.53 (formerly listed as Langley House)
II
Large house, now college. c.1770 rebuilding of an earlier house. Extended and stuccoed c.1830. Altered and extended C20. Rendered and roughcast brick. Slate roofs. Double depth, 3:5:3. 3 storey centre block with 2 storey wings. Steps up to central entrance, part glazed door with rectangular fanlight, Roman Doric pilasters to pedimented doorcase. Flanking 8 pane sashes in entrance bay. Outer bays have large glazing bar sashes in reveals with architraves on rendered ground floor. High plinth with blocked cellar openings. Upper storeys roughcast with rendered plat bands, first floor recessed glazing bar sashes with segmental headed architraves, smaller second floor sashes. Boxed eaves. End stacks and 1 ridge stack to right of centre. 3 bay links with inner bays set back slightly, glazing bar sashes, 1 on ground floor blocked in each wing. Cornices to parapets. Roofs hipped on wings. 2 bay left return has a large ground floor bow with 3 tripartite sashes, balustraded balcony to first floor. Garden front is similar with entrance recessed with panelled reveals, similar doorcase. Ground floor left, C20 2 light casements in reveals. Ground floor right a canted bay with architraved casements. Between ground and first floors to centre is a pseudo-Venetian staircase window, key blocked central arch. Wing to right has ground floor recess with 2 pseudo-Doric columns in antis to a tiled early C20 summer-house with a plasterwork ceiling. To right a tripartite sash with framing half columns and pseudo-Doric entablature. Three first floor sashes. To far left beyond 3 bay wing are 2 further bays, lower with sashes in reveals. To entrance front this block projects slightly, altered openings, parapet, roof hipped to front. Interior not inspected. Formerly known as Langley House. The present name commemorates Nicholas Breakspear, born in Abbots Langley, who, as Adrian IV, became the only English Pope in 1154. Further C20 additions to far right are not of special interest. (Pevsner 1977).
Listing NGR: TL0964502242
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158681
- 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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