HAILEY HOUSE, AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE 130 METRES EAST OF QUAD

HAILEY HOUSE, AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE 130 METRES EAST OF QUAD, LONDON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1341818
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: HAILEY HOUSE, AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE 130 METRES EAST OF QUAD
Statutory Address:: HAILEY HOUSE, AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE 130 METRES EAST OF QUAD, LONDON ROAD

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Date:: 2001-07-12
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1341818
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: HAILEY HOUSE, AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE 130 METRES EAST OF QUAD
Statutory Address 1:: HAILEY HOUSE, AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE 130 METRES EAST OF QUAD, LONDON ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: HAILEY HOUSE, AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE 130 METRES EAST OF QUAD, LONDON ROAD

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hertford Heath
National Grid Reference:: TL 35958 10702

Details

GREAT AMWELL LONDON ROAD TL 3510 (east side) Hertford Heath 14/25 Hailey House, at Haileybury and Imperial Service College 130 metres east of Quad GV II

School building formerly a private house. c1720, large dormitory wing 1865 by Matthew Digby Wyatt, older part altered 1879. Red brick with red tiled gabled roofs. An L-shaped 3-storeys building with the oldest part, at the angle, a double pile plan C18 house with parallel gabled roofs E-W. 4-windows S front with sash windows, segmental arches and modular cornice. Entrance in E end early C19 and arches for cellar openings. Semi-circular attic window to rear wing. Large 3-storeys purpose designed dormitory block added on W end projecting to S to allow for a tall entrance turret in the angle at the N. Its open lower part is of Venetian Gothic arches springing from a fat cast iron column with stone tas-de-charge. Original wrought iron grille in Gothic style. Heavy brick corbelled eaves, stone floor bands, a row of triangular gabled dormers, close set sash windows to the dormitory. Larger more widely spaced windows on ground floor. Stone corbelling to W gable chimney. Rear wing 1879 simpler. This house pre-dates the college and was the residence of Rev. T R Malthus when a professor at the East India College (Haileybury). One of the first Wisterias in Britain is said to have been planted at the Hailey House in the early C19. Part of a picturesque red brick group E of the main Quad. (Matthews (1959) 165-6 : Blunt (1966) 5, 12, 28).

Listing NGR: TL3595810702

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Legacy System number:: 355861
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Blunt, W J W, The Haileybury Buildings, (1966), 5+12+28

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