Stratton's Tower
STRATTON'S TOWER, BUCKS ALLEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1341449
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Stratton's Tower
- Statutory Address:
- STRATTON'S TOWER, BUCKS ALLEY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1341449
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Stratton's Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- STRATTON'S TOWER, BUCKS ALLEY
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:
- STRATTON'S TOWER, BUCKS ALLEY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Berkhamsted
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 29495 08107
Details
LITTLE BERKHAMSTED BUCKS ALLEY TL 20 NE (Northeast side) Little Berkhamsted 7/82 Stratton's Tower 24.11.66 (formerly listed as Berkhampstead Monument (Stratton's Folly)) - II*
Observatory tower, now dwelling. 1789 for Admiral J. Stratton of the Gage (q.v). Red brick, some vitrified, largely re-used from C17 brew-house previously on the site. 5 stages. 155 feet high. Octagonal lower stage with unequal sides, 4 larger sides have blank arches. Plinth. Cyma recta cornice. To SE an entrance, glazed doors, round headed fanlight, impost blocks. Upper stages are all round. Short 2nd stage with 4 openings aligned with lower stage arches, 9 pane windows recessed with slightly cambered heads. Plat band to 3rd and 4th stages, 4 tall relieving arches on same alignment with continuous impost band, within arches are 3rd stage tall round headed sashes, 4th stage oculi with radiating glazing bars. Openings to N on 2nd, 3rd and 4th stages are blind. Plat band and cyma recta cornice to top stage with 8 small pane windows with slightly cambered heads. Stone coped embattled parapet aligned so that merlons are over windows. Interior not inspected. Traditionally built to view ships on Thames but more probably for astronomical observation. (RCHM 1910: Pevsner 1977: G. Millington, Little Berkhamsted, 1981).
Listing NGR: TL2949508107
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 356189
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Millington, G, Little Berkhamsted, (1981)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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