BATLERS GREEN HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1296473
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1953
List Entry Name:: BATLERS GREEN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BATLERS GREEN HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1296473
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1953
List Entry Name:: BATLERS GREEN HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BATLERS GREEN HOUSE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BATLERS GREEN HOUSE

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Hertsmere (District Authority)
Parish:: Aldenham
National Grid Reference:: TQ 15577 98543

Details

TQ 19 NE ALDENHAM BATTLERS GREEN (East side) Radlett

7/16 Batlers Green House 1.9.53

GV II*

House. c.1500, altered and extended c.1560. Late C17 addition. Refronted early C18. Further late C18 and C19 additions and alterations. Timber frame to core, largely clad in red brick. Pargetting. Tiled roofs. 2 bay open hall. Part floored over and extended in C16 with parlour and service cross wing which was rebuilt in C18 to form new front: 2 storeys and attic. 7 bays with 2 bay late C18 addition to right. Entrance once central: 6 fielded-panel door with rectangular top light. Moulded architrave and consoles to hood. Glazing bar sashes: some thick bars, some thin, some original glass, flush frames, timber sills, flat arched heads. Plinth. Plat bands, that at cornice with moulded lower course. Coped parapet. 4 hipped dormers. Ridge taller to right. Right gable end parapet and external stack. Left return: 2 hall bays to centre. Left bay has jettied first floor with exposed studding, cambered tie beam and ogee tension braces. Ovolo moulded timber mullions to 3-light leaded pane casement. C16 pierced guilloche pattern bargeboard. Ground floor: brick, oriel with mullion and transom leaded pane casement. Right hall bay: brick, 4-light casement with a segmental relieving arch, cross window to first floor. Rebuilt principal stack to left end of hall, diagonallly set shafts. Service wing projects forward to right. 2 ground floor sashes. Pargetted first floor and bargeboarded gable with a 2 light casement. 'Laus Deo' on rainwater head at junction with C18 front. Parlour wing extending to left with pargetted panels, 2 and 4 light casements, that at eaves nearest hall is original. Decoratively bargeboarded gable. Further left: late C17 granary, 1 storey and attic, pargetting, 4-light casements, 1 hipped dormer, hip to left. To rear: 2 storey C18 and C19 brick additions, sashes and casements. Dentilled eaves. Hipped and gabled roofs. C19 stacks, tilehanging to rear of C19 extension to front. Interior: hall has moulded ceiling beams, arched braces from jowled posts. Oak panelling. Moulded segmental brick arch over fireplace. Secondary stair in granary re-using timber braces as balusters. Exposed timbers on first floor. C18 panelling, stairs and doors. (RCHM 1910: Pevsner 1977: Herts Archaeology, vol.6, 1978, p.78).

Listing NGR: TQ1557798543

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

Legacy System number:: 164063
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
'Hertfordshire Archaeology' in Hertfordshire Archaeology, , Vol. 6, (1978), 78
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.