Otterspool House and the Flat
OTTERSPOOL HOUSE, OTTERSPOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346896
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Otterspool House and the Flat
- Statutory Address:
- OTTERSPOOL HOUSE, OTTERSPOOL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346896
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Otterspool House and the Flat
- Statutory Address 1:
- OTTERSPOOL HOUSE, OTTERSPOOL LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE FLAT, OTTERSPOOL LANE
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:
- OTTERSPOOL HOUSE, OTTERSPOOL LANE
- Statutory Address:
- THE FLAT, OTTERSPOOL LANE
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:
- TQ 12803 98845
Details
TQ 19 NW ALDENHAM OTTERSPOOL LANE (Northwest side) Aldenham
6/41 Otterspool House - and The Flat
- II
Former coaching inn, now student housing. Early to mid C18 with C19 extensions and alterations and link to a late C18 house. Main house. Red brick. Hipped slate roof. 3 storeys, originally 5 windows. Original front now faces garden. Late C19 full height canted bay projects to left of centre, ground floor cement rendering with banded rustication to ground floor canted bay to right. Mutuled cornice to ground floor. Traces of arch over ground floor left, perhaps original entrance. Glazing bar sashes, flat arched heads. 2 blind windows to left. Dentilled timber cornice. Early C19 addition to left in stock brick, set back. An entrance with a semi-circular fanlight. To road, now front: entrance in C19 gabled porch, 2nd bay from right. Central stack to front, cross axial stack on later addition. Remains of large late C18 to early C19 grotto attached to right return from garden extending on 3 sides of a rectangle, probably associated with the drinking of waters from the nearby pool, at one time fashionable. 2 and 1 storey links to late C18 house. Red brick. Hipped tiled roof. 2 storeys. Scattered casements, some leaded lights. To right on road C20 porch addition. External stack to front left. Dentilled timber cornice to rear. (VCH 1923).
Listing NGR: TQ1280398845
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164088
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1923)
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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