Stags End House
STAGS END HOUSE, GADDESDEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348034
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Stags End House
- Statutory Address:
- STAGS END HOUSE, GADDESDEN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348034
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Stags End House
- Statutory Address 1:
- STAGS END HOUSE, GADDESDEN 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:
- STAGS END HOUSE, GADDESDEN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Gaddesden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 06870 12010
Details
GREAT GADDESDEN GADDESDEN LANE TL 01 SE (North side) Stags End 4/78 - Stags End House - II
Country house, now offices. Early C19 on ancient site (called Tags End on Tithe Map of 1838 and Gaddesden Bury in 1851), additions in late C19, interior alterations and staircase 1907 by William Bonnar Hopkins for Frederick Braund, kitchen wing 1920 by same architect. A 2-storeys double-pile Neo-classical house facing E with 2-storeys rear wing. Stucco, white brick rear wing, low-pitched hipped slate roofs. The main range has a wide oversailing eaves cornice with paired brackets to soffit. Symmetrical front 9 windows long, additional end-bays set back half the depth of the house, cornice at 1st floor level and corner pilasters. Panelled end elevations without windows. Pedimented shallow central projection of 3 bays fronted by wide porch with 4 unfluted Greek Doric columns, full entablature, and blocking course. Recessed sash windows, taller on ground floor with moulded surrounds rising from plinth. Small panes to sashes, infilling ends of porch. Triple sash windows to rear wing. Interior has oak staircase and Ionic screens to stair hall and landing over. Medieval name of site Taggeshende. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL0687012010
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157859
- 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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