Manor Lodge School

Manor Lodge School, Rectory Lane, Ridge Hill, Shenley, Radlett, WD7 9BG

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1308293
Date first listed:
12-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Manor Lodge School
Statutory Address:
Manor Lodge School, Rectory Lane, Ridge Hill, Shenley, Radlett, WD7 9BG
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1308293
Date first listed:
12-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Manor Lodge School
Statutory Address 1:
Manor Lodge School, Rectory Lane, Ridge Hill, Shenley, Radlett, WD7 9BG

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Manor Lodge School, Rectory Lane, Ridge Hill, Shenley, Radlett, WD7 9BG

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Hertsmere (District Authority)
Parish:
Shenley
National Grid Reference:
TL2019702247

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 April 2024 to update the name and address and amend description due to change in building use and to reformat the text to current standards

TL 20 SW
4/283

SHENLEY
RIDGE HILL (south side)
RECTORY LANE
Manor Lodge School

(Formerly listed as Shenley Lodge, RIDGE HILL)

II
Large house, health resort at time of listing, opened as a school in 1991. C18, much altered first half C19. Extended later C19 and c.1900. Stuccoed brick. Slate roof. Two storeys, basement and attic. Seven bays. Central entrance in projecting porch addition
of c.1900: banded rustication, pulvinated frieze, modillioned cornice and parapet. Flanking three central bays are giant pilasters. First floor: keyed arch to central Venetian window. Flanking glazing bar sashes with bracketed floating cornices, ground floor left has similar windows and two basement windows. Modillioned cornice, parapet, scrolled panel to
centre. Mansard roof. Ground floor right has link from porch across front to c.1900 ballroom extension projecting forward from right end. Extension bowed to front. Right return has tripartite sash and keyed oculus. To left: late C19 extension of one bay and link set back slightly.

Rear: full height canted bay to centre rising to semi-octagonal mansard. Ground floor right, iron verandah. Plat bands separate storeys to left and centre. Rectangular bay projects to right on late C19 extension.

Interior: features largely C19.

Listing NGR: TL2019702247

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
164338
Legacy System:
LBS

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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