Edgeworth House
EDGEWORTH HOUSE, 20, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1342141
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Edgeworth House
- Statutory Address:
- EDGEWORTH HOUSE, 20, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1342141
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Edgeworth House
- Statutory Address 1:
- EDGEWORTH HOUSE, 20, HIGH STREET
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:
- EDGEWORTH HOUSE, 20, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Berkhamsted
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 97964 08469
Details
1. +j 9 HIGH STREET (North Side) NORTHSIDE No 20 (Edgeworth House) SP 90 NE
II*
2. C16 brick foundations, structure incorporates C16 timber framework. Remodelled later C18, date 1767 carved on brick of north west chimney stack. Altered and enlarged C19 by addition of east wing, - Main west block has stucco front, hipped Welsh slated roof, 2 storeys and basement forming ground floor to back elevation, Plinth, tall pilasters, eaves band, parapet. 3 nearly flush sashes with glazing bars, Jalousies. 2 Venetian windows at back. East. wing of brick pa+r.Ll,y rendered. Welsh stated roof * 2 storeys and Lahethett, reoasded +I[I;h 2 flush sashes with gla'zing bars, Eaves corni.ce, = ', -+' '+=- ' ' Projecting bay on left; of east king with doorway up stone steps with iron railings. 8 panel door, 6 panels 1"tel(ie(1, ? flus ornamental glaing bars to [Fanlight, archivolt; surrd,utid of" attached Greek Ionic columns, entablature with central tablet, architrave with central tablet, architrave and frieze broken forward over columns, panel above with (imimy balustrade. Interior: elegant la.LerCl8 plasterwork, notably to octagonal room with ceiling decoration and garlands round arched niches. . + bfaria Edgeworth, novelist, lived here as a child with her parents, 1716-8i) and 1781. The house was then known as The Limes; it was renamed Edgeworth House in 1911.
Listing NGR: SP9796408469
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355475
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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