Almshouses
ALMSHOUSES, 20-26, BENTLEY HEATH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346940
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- ALMSHOUSES, 20-26, BENTLEY HEATH LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12257/12
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346940
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALMSHOUSES, 20-26, BENTLEY HEATH 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:
- ALMSHOUSES, 20-26, BENTLEY HEATH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Hertsmere (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 24879 99617
Details
TQ 2499 POTTERS BAR BENTLEY HEATH LANE
Barnet
12/180 Nos. 20 to 26 (even) (Almshouses)
GV II
Row of 4 almshouses. 1864 on central datestone. Built for G. Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford. English bond red brick, cement rendered dressings, slate roof. 1 storey. 6 bays: 2 paired entrances with flanking windows. Chamfered surrounds and keystone blocks to timber doors with decorative hinges. Timber gabled porches on brick bases, wavy bargeboards. 2 light glazing bar casements with quoined jambs and cornices to lintels. Plinth. Simple rendered cornice to close eaves. Quoins at return ends. Large central stack and 2 smaller end stacks all with diagonally set bricks below cornices. Extended to rear. Interior not inspected. Forecourt wall about 1 m high with pyramidal heads to piers flanking entrances, semi-circular top course.
Listing NGR: TQ2487999617
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164232
- 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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