REDHEATH

REDHEATH, SARRATT ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1347875
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1953
List Entry Name:: REDHEATH
Statutory Address:: REDHEATH, SARRATT ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1347875
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1953
List Entry Name:: REDHEATH
Statutory Address 1:: REDHEATH, SARRATT ROAD

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:: REDHEATH, SARRATT ROAD

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Three Rivers (District Authority)
Parish:: Sarratt
National Grid Reference:: TQ0662897096

Details

TQ 09 SE 6/327 1.9.53

SARRATT SARRATT ROAD

(Northeast side) Croxley Green Redheath

II*

Country house, now school. 1712 front range added for C. Finch to a C16 house, now gone. Altered 1743, extended and altered 1866 for H.C. Finch. Further extended in C20. Brown-red brick with lighter red brick dressings. Hipped tiled roof. 9 bays, 1 room deep. 3 storeys. Central 3 bays project slightly. Central entrance: 8 panelled door with rusticated surround, vermiculated blocks on Roman Doric pilasters, richly carved brackets to semi-domed hood. Moulded plinth. Glazing bar sashes in moulded flush frames, gauged brick flat arched heads, those flanking and above entrance scalloped. Cyma reversa plat band over ground floor, Cyma recta floating cornices over central first floor windows. Ovolo plat band over first floor on outer sections. Small 9 pane sashes on second floor, '1712' cut into brick in recessed apron below central window. Eaves cornice. Central cupola on ridge, a C20 replacement of 1743 original. Square drum with moulded cornice, octagonal bell turret with Roman Doric columns to ogee leaded dome with weathervane finial. 3 bay right return, plat bands, altered openings. Ground floor: 2 sashes. First floor, central cross casement, small vertical casement to right, blind opening to left. Second floor: 2 light central and 1 light right casements, blind opening to left. Left return: 2 bays, plat bands, glazing bar sashes, blocked cellar windows. Rear wall has altered openings and brickwork. Ground floor lean-to addition to centre. c19 stacks on rear ridge. 1 storey C19 block to rear left: 3 bays, glazed entrance, flanking sashes, roof hipped to rear. Interior: some original bolection moulded fielded panelling on ground floor, stone fireplace in hall. (VCH 1908: Pevsner 1977: RCHM Typescript). C20 additions not of special interest.

Listing NGR: TQ0662897096

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 158972
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1908)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)

Legal

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