Oxhey Hall
OXHEY HALL, HAMPERMILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347877
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Oxhey Hall
- Statutory Address:
- OXHEY HALL, HAMPERMILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347877
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Oxhey Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- OXHEY HALL, HAMPERMILL 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:
- OXHEY HALL, HAMPERMILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Three Rivers (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Watford Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ1035194398
Details
TQ 19 SW
10/336
WATFORD RURAL
HAMPERMILL LANE
(Northwest side)
Oxhey
Oxhey Hall
GV
II*
House. Early C16, extended early C17. Remodelled, cased and extended
c.1870. Timber frame. Stock brick casing, some rendering. Slate roofs. 6
bay range with rear passage, possibly hunting lodge or lodgings range
cross wing of a once larger house. Externally all C19. 2 storeys. 6
window front. Entrance in shaped gabled porch in 3rd bay from left.
Plank door with strap hinges. Ground floor canted bay to right of
centre. Sashes with cambered heads; Diagonally set brick band and
cornice. C18 ridge stack to right of centre, recapped. Original left end
stack with C19 cap. Coped gable end parapets. Cat-slide to rear over 2
storey passage built as continuous outshut. Left return relieving arch.
Rendered 2 bay C17 wing to rear left has 2 light casements. C17 rendered
end stack with ovens. Right return: entrance to passage behind main
range. C19 1 bay 2 storey block to rear with gable to rear right with
extruded stack. Interior: ground floor right, richly carved C16 oak
ceiling: moulded bearers frame 16 panels with leaf and flower cusp
terminals and bosses, curved brackets from moulded capitals of
semi-octagonal wall posts. Herringbone bracing in large panels on end
wall. Rear passage has arched braces from posts with moulded capitals on
both floors. Curved tension braces. Arched braces, some hollow
chamfered, from heavily jowled wall posts to cambered tie beams. Tenoned
purlins. Angled, curved struts to principal rafters to 4 bays. To right,
double purlins with a curved X brace from principals to tie beam. Curved
wind braces. C17 wing has arched braces to queen strut, clasped purlin
roof with wind braces. The house is on a moated site. (RCHM 1910: RCHM
Typescript: Pevsner 1977).
Listing NGR: TQ1035194398
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158981
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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