Brickendon Bury
BRICKENDON BURY, BRICKENDON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347803
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Brickendon Bury
- Statutory Address:
- BRICKENDON BURY, BRICKENDON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347803
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Brickendon Bury
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRICKENDON BURY, BRICKENDON LANE
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:
- BRICKENDON BURY, BRICKENDON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brickendon Liberty
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 33042 10424
Details
TL 31 SW BRICKENDON LIBERTY BRICKENDON LANE (East side)
1/37 Brickendon Bury 24.11.66
GV II
Country house, now laboratories and offices. Early C18 for Thomas Clarke on moated site. Rear S and E parts c.1760 for Morgan family. Alterations and W service wing early C19 for William Dent. Alterations and central tower 1885-6 for Charles Grey Hill and probably the free-standing porte couchere. Modernised for George Pearson in 1890's and extensively altered and extended c.1909 for Sir Edward Pearson, civil engineer (upper parts of W end S fronts and Jacobean Room). By 1919 the estate has its own electric generator, telephone, central heating and fire station. Used as prep school when in 1939 became HQ of Special Operations Executive (Europe) and visited by Sir Winston Churchill. After war HQ National Agricultural Advisory Service up to late 1960's. Purchased 1971 by present owners Malaysian Rubber Producers Research Association. Original house red brick with stone quoins and giant order pilasters to front, now brickwork stuccoed and all extensions. Bath stone porte couchere. Slate hanging to gabled dormers on E and half timbering on S. 3 parallel-ridged slate roofs. 2-storeys and attics house set in parkland on ancient moated site facing North with long avenue extending to Hertford on main axis. 9-windows N front has windows 2:1:3:1:2 with taller Corinthian pilasters, and higher cornice to middle bay, carrying a triangular pediment with circular window. Balustrade and parapet with dies over entablature of outer bays are a later addition. 1st floor band and rusticated quoins. Tall, slightly recessed box sashes with 6/6 panes on 1st floor and 9/1 on ground floor. Central small timber porch links to single-storey 3-bays stone arcaded Doric porte couchere on axis. Lower 2-storeys parapeted service wing set back on W, and tall square stucco tower with balustrade and arched chimneys central on each side, S-front 9 windows long with sashed wide dormers, central canted bay and Tuscan stone colonnade or loggia along whole front. Blind boxes to 1st floor 6/1 panes sash windows. French windows to ground floor. Interior has 2-storeys entrance hall with gallery, 4 rooms with gilt plaster decoration to walls cornices and decorative plaster ceilings in Adam style. Fine moulded mahogany 6-panels doors and staircase (renewed). (VCH (1912)409: Kelly (1914)135: Pevsner (1977)110: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3304210424
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160644
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 409
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 110
Kellys Directory in Hertfordshire, (1914), 135
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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