Luton Hoo
Luton Hoo, Luton Hoo Estate
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1321301
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Luton Hoo
- Statutory Address:
- Luton Hoo, Luton Hoo Estate
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1321301
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Luton Hoo
- Statutory Address 1:
- Luton Hoo, Luton Hoo Estate
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:
- Luton Hoo, Luton Hoo Estate
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hyde
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 10451 18552
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 16/07/2020
TL 11 NW
44/219
HYDE
LUTON HOO ESTATE
Luton Hoo
29.4.52
GV
I
Designed by Robert Adam for the Earl of Bute in 1760s, and probably completed by Robert Smirke. The building was gutted in 1843 and repaired. It was extensively. remodelled in 1903 by Mewes for Sir Julius Wernher a South African diamond merchant of German origin. Wernher and his wife Alice Sedgwick Mankiewicz, the daughter of a Polish Jewish merchant from Danzig, were avid art collectors, and much of their collection is now on display at Ranger’s House in Greenwich.
The house is of ashlar stone. The entrance front is probably by Smirke. It has a hexastyle Ionic portico and full height angle bows. In the centre of the four bay recesses to either side of the portico is a feature of darker stone consisting of four Doric pilasters one storey in height surmounted by a frieze. While the house is of two storeys on the west and east fronts, the north and south sides are of three storeys. North side has giant columms carrying an entablature The south face has two slender Greek columns of Adam's work. The rest is Edwardian.
Interior: The chapel was built by G.E Street in Byzantine style in 1875. Fine oval Staircase hall by Mewes.
Listing NGR: TL1045118552
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 36035
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 2 Bedfordshire,
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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