LYTTON ALMSHOUSES (5 DWELLINGS)

LYTTON ALMSHOUSES (5 DWELLINGS), PARK LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347325
Date first listed:: 21-Mar-1984
List Entry Name:: LYTTON ALMSHOUSES (5 DWELLINGS)
Statutory Address:: LYTTON ALMSHOUSES (5 DWELLINGS), PARK LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347325
Date first listed:: 21-Mar-1984
List Entry Name:: LYTTON ALMSHOUSES (5 DWELLINGS)
Statutory Address 1:: LYTTON ALMSHOUSES (5 DWELLINGS), PARK LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LYTTON ALMSHOUSES (5 DWELLINGS), PARK LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Knebworth
National Grid Reference:: TL 22904 20228

Details

Old Knebworth TL 22 SW KNEBWORTH PARK LANE (south side)

3/169 Lytton Almshouses

- (5 dwellings)

GV II

Almshouses. Erected 1836 by Elizabeth Bulwer Lytton. 5 tenements in single storey range with gabled projecting centre. Yellow gault brick with cement dressings and Portland stone moulded eaves corbels. Slate roof. Simile Tudor style. Each tenement has door flanked by 2- and 3-light glazing bar casements, the doors with mullioned panels and moulded hoods. Plaque on centre gable with Lyttons arms.

Listing NGR: TL2293020250

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Legacy System number:: 162117
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.