Tatmore Place
TATMORE PLACE, PRESTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347410
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Tatmore Place
- Statutory Address:
- TATMORE PLACE, PRESTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347410
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Tatmore Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- TATMORE PLACE, PRESTON ROAD
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:
- TATMORE PLACE, PRESTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Ippolyts
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 18289 26103
Details
ST IPPOLLITTS PRESTON ROAD TL 12 NE (West side)
3/65 Tatmore Place - GV II
Country house, now a laboratory and offices. 1908 by John Belcher (1841-1913) for Sir Joseph Child Priestley (1862-1941), non-domestic uses since 1939. Red brick with blue headers in English-bond, stone dressings and windows, steep slate roofs in graduated courses. A compact, large 2-storeys and attics, L-shaped house in Early English Renaissance revival style set in its own grounds facing E and N. Tall stone mullioned and transomed windows. Brick chimneys with 2 pilaster strips to each face. Single-storey hipped rear service wing. Moulded stone doorways with 4-centred arched heads. E entrance front symmetrical with projecting 2-storeys and attics central porch flanked by 2-storeys semi-octagonal bay windows. Round arched entrance with splayed reveals, double keystone and steps continuing up to half glazed double doors. Doric stone order to ground floor, Ionic order to 1st floor with triangular pediment. Gable parapet to porch has corbelled kneelers, finial and balls. Round headed upper lights in windows, transoms to ground floor windows. Stone string courses. Armorial crest over entrance. Badge and '1908' on rainwater heads. N front terraced with 2-storeys rectangular bay windows at each end, gabled centre with semi-octagonal bay, and one window to each side. Interior planned round central staircase. Oak stair round small square well with moulded and splat balusters, arcaded at ground floor, and lit by large 5-lights stained glass window. Segmental arched panelled, stone floored, entrance hall with prominent cornice. 3-panels heavy oak doors in deep moulded doorcases. Drawing room 2 steps down with ceiling of heavy moulded beams and joists giving coffered effect. Panelled to 3/4 height. Arcaded openwork upper part to elaborate chimneypiece in Jacobean style. Elaborate panelling of doors. (Attribution established by Mr. Fleck of Hitchin Museum from local authority building records: for client see Priestley's monument at N end of Preston churchyard nearby).
Listing NGR: TL1828926103
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162677
- 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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