Donnington House
DONNINGTON HOUSE, 40, ST PETER'S STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347164
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Donnington House
- Statutory Address:
- DONNINGTON HOUSE, 40, ST PETER'S STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347164
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Donnington House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DONNINGTON HOUSE, 40, ST PETER'S 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:
- DONNINGTON HOUSE, 40, ST PETER'S STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14933 07476
Details
ST PETER'S STREET 1. (East Side) 1582 No 40 (Donnington House) TL 1407 SE 9/22 8.5.50.
II Gv
2. Mid C18. 3 storeys, 5 windows. Blue brick and red brick dressings. Stone cornice and brick parapet. Stone band at 1st floor and stone plinth. Gauged, segmental, brick arches to sash windows with glazing bars in broad, near-flush frames (except on ground floor, where sashes have been replaced and panes are leaded). Prostyle porch with paired Tuscan columns and entablature with Triglyph frieze and mutule cornice. 3 steps to door with moulded architrave, and patterned fanlight. Cast iron railings with spearhead standards and pineapple finials. Inside a staircase with spiral- turned balusters and cut string. Hall and some rooms with original panelling. VCH page 473.
Nos 28 to 46 (even) and No 50 form a group.
Listing NGR: TL1493307476
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163434
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1914), 473
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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