Munden House
MUNDEN HOUSE, MUNDEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346895
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Munden House
- Statutory Address:
- MUNDEN HOUSE, MUNDEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346895
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Munden House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MUNDEN HOUSE, MUNDEN
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:
- MUNDEN HOUSE, MUNDEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Hertsmere (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 13665 00221
Details
TL 10 SW ALDENHAM MUNDEN
2/38 Munden House -
GV II
Country House. 1787-95 for R.S.Parker, remodelled 1828 for G.Hibbert. Altered 1851 by R.Geldham, altered 1887. Red brick, extended in stock brick. Stone dressings, some rendering. Slate hipped roofs. 2 storey C18 block wrapped in Gothic Revival additions. 3 bay front of 1828. Central bay projects forward with large 6-light casements: chamfered surrounds, central stone mullion, ovolo moulded timber mullions and transom, diamond glazed upper panes. Carved frieze between storeys. First floor dripstone. Parapet above string course, stone coping, pinnacles. Former entrance to right in what is now a low quadrant outshut. Flanking bays project less: 4 light casements, moulded stone cornice to right. 3 bargeboarded gabled dormers. Ridge stacks flank central bay. To right: small first floor oriel in link to 1 bay addition of 1851. Ground floor long porch/vestibule projects forward with entrance to front: plank door with a pointed arch, square hood mould and carved spandrels. Quatrefoil over entrance and Arms in relief in low gabled parapet. Angle buttresses to 3 bay returns: small casements with leaded panes, carved frieze. First floor canted bay, 4 centred arched lights with leaded panes, ogee roof, Gothic ornament above. Left return of 1828. 2 bays, that towards front projects with 5-light casements. Towards rear a 4-light window below a 3-light window. 2 dormers and central ridge stack. Garden front: 3 builds evident. To centre 3 late C18 red brick bays refenestrated in 1828 with 3-light windows as at front. Staircase window over an entrance to left. Coped parapet over stone cornice. 3 dormers. To right 1828 build projects forward. Stock brick with cement rendered canted bay. To left 1887 projecting addition, red brick, details follow 1828 model. Attached to right from front is 2-storey service wing and further 2 and 1 storey later additions. Interior: well-preserved Victorian features. Formal garden to S. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1360000200
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164085
- 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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