Margaret House Including Forecourt Walls

Details

BARLEY CHURCH END TL 4038 (South side) Barley

8/84 Margaret House including Forecourt Walls

GV II

Former Rectory, now an old people's home. 1831-8 by A. Salvin for Rev. W.H. Turner, altered late C19. Red brick. Tiled roofs. A large asymmetrical multigabled block in a simple Jacobethan style. 2 storeys and attic. 5 window front. Outer bays project with gables. 3 light casements in chamfered surrounds with gauged brick flat arched heads, lattice lights on first floor. 2 light windows in attics, brick kneelers to gable parapets with outer steps. A third smaller gable to left of centre is stair wing with a large first floor 9 light mullion and transom hexagonally leaded window, similar parapet. Central entrance and bay to right recessed with first floor lattice cross casement, projecting brick courses to close eaves. Ground floor has a later C19 stuccoed porch in recess with distyle in antis marbled Doric columns carrying segmental arches, cornice. Inside porch a part glazed door with a 4 centred arched head and a cross casement. Central cross axial ridge stack with 2 diagonal shafts. Right return has external stacks with offsets, diagonal shafts towards rear, service entrance, lattice casements. Left return is 3 bays. Ground floor canted bay window to left, tall cross casements. First floor dual sashes, triple to left, 2 light attic casements. Gables over each bay, that to left larger, all with parapets. To left of centre a cross axial ridge stack with 4 diagonal shafts. To rear 3 bays, ground floor canted bay window to left, large conservatory with projecting gabled porch to 2 right bays. First floor dual sashes. Small gables over outer bays with a cross axial ridge stack to left of centre with 4 diagonal shafts. In inner angle of further extending service wing to left is a 3 storey block with a taller plain parapet. Extruded stack on rear gable end of service wing, 1 storey outbuilding with slate roof. Interior: dogleg staircase with barley sugar balusters, capped newel posts, moulded handrail, bolection moulded door surrounds, marble fireplaces. Red brick walls extend from front to enclose forecourt. To right are entrances to service passage with a 4 centred arched head and to churchyard with a segmental head, 2 doors to left. Segmental brick coping. Corner piers have moulded capping. Ramps down at ends to front section of 6 bays, open to centre. Central piers with chamfered caps and bases, neck bands, rebated corners. Pilasters between bays, cogged brick course below coping. C20 additions to front left are not of special interest. (J. Wilkerson, Two Ears of Barley, 1969: Pevsner 1977).

Listing NGR: TL4019638432

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:

162540

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LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Wilkerson, J, Two Ears of Barley, (1969)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)

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