Ayot Place

AYOT PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1348132
Date first listed:
09-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:
Ayot Place
Statutory Address:
AYOT PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1348132
Date first listed:
09-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:
Ayot Place
Statutory Address 1:
AYOT PLACE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
AYOT PLACE

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Welwyn Hatfield (District Authority)
Parish:
Ayot St. Peter
National Grid Reference:
TL 21140 14923

Details

TL 21 SW AYOT ST PETER Ayot Place

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- II

C15 hall house, altered and cross wing added early C17. Interior alterations early-mid C19. Building restored and extended W in early C20 and c1930 to form Tudor style mansion. Red brick, exposed timber frame, plaster and nogging. Old tile and machine tile roof. U-plan. 2 storeys and gabled attics. Wood and brick mullioned and transomed leaded windows. Entrance front has 2 central gables, close studded left hand side with external chimney stack, this the restored side elevation of the C17 cross wing. E elevation to garden has old brickwork and a square window bay on right hand gable end. S courtyard elevation with curved pediment to stone door surround, obelisk and carved heads. 2 1st floor oriels. Interior of cross wing with 2 very good Jacobean stone fireplaces on ground and 1st floor N wall. Exposed heavy tie beams to hall, one with large braces and remnants of spandrel tracery. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL2114014923

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
158294
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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