LITTLE BERKHAMSTED HOUSE

LITTLE BERKHAMSTED HOUSE, ROBINS'S NEST HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1341452
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: LITTLE BERKHAMSTED HOUSE
Statutory Address:: LITTLE BERKHAMSTED HOUSE, ROBINS'S NEST HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1341452
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: LITTLE BERKHAMSTED HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LITTLE BERKHAMSTED HOUSE, ROBINS'S NEST HILL

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LITTLE BERKHAMSTED HOUSE, ROBINS'S NEST HILL

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 29267 07988

Details

LITTLE BERKHAMSTED ROBIN'S NEST HILL TL 20 NE (North side) Little Berkhamsted 7/94 No. 5 (Little Berkhamsted 20.10.52 House)(formerly listed as Little Berkhampstead House) GV II*

Large house. 1732 for O. Lloyd, a Master of the Stationer's Company. Raised and 2 pavilion wings added c.1790 for J. Bouchier. Further extended and altered c.1820 for T. Daniell. Brown brick with red brick dressings. Slate roofs. Double depth plan. Originally 2, now 3 storeys and cellar. 5 bay front. Central entrance: 6 raised fielded panelled door with radial traceried fanlight with panelled reveals. Early C19 Greek Doric porch, triglyph frieze, mutules. Plinth. Tall glazing bar sashes, recessed with gauged brick segmental heads, red brick quoins, plat band over first floor, smaller 2nd floor sashes in brown brick, rebuilt coped parapet. 4 end stacks extruded, continuous return parapets, right end first and second floor sashes, left end blocked openings. Main block to garden is all red brick, similar 5 bays, 3 storeys. Stone steps up to centre, perhaps originally principal entrance, half glazed door, fanlight as at front, panelled reveal, architrave with consoles to hood. To right from front is 1 storey pavilion, set back with a C19 canted bay to front, French doors, to garden a canted bay from same plane as main facade, 3 tall sashes with gauged brick flat arched heads, dentilled band to coped parapet. Hipped slate roof. Identical pavilion to left has been incorporated into C19 service block. Now 3 bays, 2 storeys, flat roofed, C18 red brick and C19 stock brick. Ground floor flush frame sashes with segmental heads, straight joint to C19 left bay with an entrance with a hood, first floor recessed sashes with gauged brick, flat arched heads. To garden pavilion has canted bay raised to 2 storeys, additional bay to right has 3 windows, 2 with segmental heads. To far left a 1 storey double depth kitchen block. Red brick, hipped tiled roofs. 4 sashes with segmental heads to front, coped parapet. Blind openings and an entrance in left return. To garden a blind opening and an entrance. Interior: black and white stone flagged entrance hall and through passage. Early C18 open well staircase, barley sugar balusters, fluted Corinthian newel posts, open string, carved cheek pieces, ramped and moulded handrail. Much earlier C18 fielded panelling on ground and first floors, box cornices. Right hand pavilion has Louis XV Rococo panelling, mirrors and tapestry inserted c.1920. (Pevsner 1977: G. Millington, Little Berkhamsted, 1981).

Listing NGR: TL2926707988

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 356201
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Millington, G, Little Berkhamsted, (1981)

Legal

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