THE MANOR HOUSE

33A AND 35, HODDESDON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1341860
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:: THE MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: 33A AND 35, HODDESDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1341860
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: THE MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: 33A AND 35, HODDESDON ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: THE MANOR HOUSE, 33, HODDESDON 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 33A AND 35, HODDESDON ROAD
Statutory Address:: THE MANOR HOUSE, 33, HODDESDON ROAD

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Stanstead St. Margarets
National Grid Reference:: TL3803311499

Details

TL 3811 STANSTEAD HODDESDON ROAD ST MARGARETS (west side) St Margarets village 13/40 No 33 (The Manor House) 4.12.51 No 33A, and No35 (Formerly listed as The Manor GV House)

II

House, now sub-divided. Late C16 or early C17, altered in late C17 and extended in late C19 for Septimus Croft. Part timberframed, part brick built. Plastered or painted brick finishes. Steep old red tiled roofs. 2-storeys and attics. The house was divided in the late C17 causing the peculiar plan: unified in late C19 by addition of new entrance and staircase in middle (RCHM Typescript). L-shaped plan facing E with 2-storeys timberframed and brick cased range at S with weatherboarded S gable. Low 2-storeys plastered NW ranqe has a picturesque garden front on N. Gable to triple sash windows and canted brick bay with decorative banded tiling on roof, sashes and French doors. Roof continues down over continuation on riqht with large lateral chimney. Brick C19 wing at end, pantiles with scalloped and pierced bargeboards and canted oriel window. Two and a half storeys corner block with English-bond C17 brickwork exposed on Ground Floor. Upper part timberframed and lined as ashlar. C19 bargeboard and finial. 2-light casement to attic. Flush box sash with 8/8 panes to 1st floor. Wide canted bay on N with casements, top lights and French doors. Large many-flued chimney. Central on E a C19 1-storey castellated brick entrance with gabled wooden porch and small window to right with Gothic tracery and dripmould. On C17 corner block a gabled dormer, 1st floor sash window and segmental bay with glazing bars. Set back on S a projecting chimney to the S wing, probably built to contain the kitchen and service rooms with an unheated range of chambers over. Inside N part of this range a clasped purlin roof with the collars chamfered and stopped, and similar careful finish to the jowled posts. The present staircase brought from Saffron Walden in C20. 2-panel bolection moulded door to attic. Plainer C18 door with H hinges on ground floor at NE. S part of S wing (No 35) brick faced is 2-storeys and 3-windows. Casement windows and flush panelled door under segmental arches. Said to have an old fireplace inside, (RCHM (1911) 212: VCH (1912) 474: RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL3803311499

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 355984
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 474

Legal

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