Flamstead House
FLAMSTEAD HOUSE, RIVER HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348028
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Flamstead House
- Statutory Address:
- FLAMSTEAD HOUSE, RIVER HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348028
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Flamstead House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FLAMSTEAD HOUSE, RIVER HILL
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:
- FLAMSTEAD HOUSE, RIVER HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Flamstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 07944 14896
Details
FLAMSTEAD RIVER HILL TL 0714 (West side) 9/51 - Flamstead House - II
Large house. C18 or earlier rear wing and kitchen, front block has inscribed stone plaque 'FLAMSTEAD HOUSE/The East front/ Erected by/ JOHN COLLINS/in the year 1782'. S wing early C19. Extensive alterations, bay windows and roughcast to E front in 1920s. Red brick, roughcast at E front, hipped slate roofs. A large L-shaped house facing E with tall single-storey rear kitchen wing to 2 storeys front block with 2-storeys extension in NW angle for dining room, and long 2-storeys S block facing W into yard at rear. Symmetrical 3-windows long front block with central entrance on E. Recessed sash windows with 6/6 panes. Stucco plinth. Stone tablet about 30cm square near S end. Greek Doric porch on 2 columns with full entablature and low pitched triangular pediment. Minor order in jambs of doorway support architrave below 3-lights fanlight with rounded corners to lights. 2 4-panels divided doors. Flat soffit to eaves. Long range to S has 2-storeys half-octagonal bay window with small-panes casements. Irregular fenestration and brick lean-to. Similar 2-storeys bay added to N end of front block with casements and parapet. 2-storeys, 3 windows dining room extension facing N has 3 French windows and sash windows to 1st floor with 6/6 panes. S side of rear wing has 2 recessed sash windows to 1st floor with 6/8 panes. C18 6-panels fielded door with lean-to slated porch on 2 heavy Greek Doric columns to left of triple sash window under deep red brick gauged arch with 1/2:4/8:1/2 panes. Single-storey tall kitchen to W of cross-passage served by door. Outside N door of passage is a shelter over a well with large iron steam-pump still complete. Formal W front to S wing. 5 windows long in red and grey brick and flat arches to sash windows with 6/6 panes and plastered reveals. Triple sash 1/2:4/8:1/2 to ground floor at left. S gable end has corner pilasters and projecting central chimney with 2 round arched recesses and 2 3-light casement windows.
Listing NGR: TL0794414896
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157831
- 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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