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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
