Anstey Hall
ANSTEY HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347755
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Anstey Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ANSTEY HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347755
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Anstey Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ANSTEY HALL
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:
- ANSTEY HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Anstey
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 40495 32913
Details
TL 4032 ANSTEY ANSTEY (North side)
7/4 Anstey Hall 22.2.67
GV II
Manor House. Mid C17 S range, earlier N range, early C19 E garden front linking the then separate ranges, W link of early C20 with portico of later C20. Timber frame plastered, plastered red brick early C19 casing to S front, and steep hipped tiled roofs. A large square 2-storeys house now entered from W, originally consisting of 2 parallel buildings some 5m apart. A 4-bay N range with jowled posts side chimney, and cut-off brace has been extended to E in early C19 to line with the 5-bay mid C17 S range. This has a symmetrical layout with 2 wide bays flanking a narrow chimney bay in the middle, and shorter end bays. The large central chimney has 4 tall octagonal shafts in-line across the centre of the roof. Symmetrical S front with corner pilasters, a plinth, parapet stepping up in the middle, an upright oval 1st floor window in the centre over a recessed sash window of 6/6 panes, and triple sash windows on both floors to each side. The Ground Floor windows only have wide moulded surrounds. More irregular W entrance front with 4 Doric columns to a flat portico, approached by curving stairways at each end. The interior has exposed timbers, the S wing with unjowled posts, face-halved bladed scarf joint in the wallplate, chamfered heavy cross-beams and axial beams, and an ovolo moulded axial beam in the E room on the Ground Floor. On the site of the capital messuage which replaced the castle as the Caput of the Manor. (VCH (1914)11-14: RCHM Typescript: Bailey (1983)21).
Listing NGR: TL4049532913
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160227
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1914), 11-14
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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