Cheshunt Great House (Remains)
CHESHUNT GREAT HOUSE (REMAINS), GOFF'S LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1348371
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1954
- Statutory Address:
- CHESHUNT GREAT HOUSE (REMAINS), GOFF'S LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1348371
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1954
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHESHUNT GREAT HOUSE (REMAINS), GOFF'S LANE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHESHUNT GREAT HOUSE (REMAINS), GOFF'S LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Broxbourne (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 34530 02720
Details
1. 5251 CHESHUNT
GOFF'S LANE (north side) Cheshunt Cheshunt Great House (remains) TL 3402 : 11/43 11.6.54
II
2. C15 house, burnt 1965, at which time it consisted of one wing of a courtyard house, containing a hall (formerly longer) with C15 timber roof with wind-braces and an early C18 staircase. Exterior was cased in brick, 1762-72, and alterations made after 1806 when a Gothick entrance facade was added to S end of hall. Cellar and portions of W wall remain. Red brick with modern coping. 3 rooms each with marble flooring, that on N with some patterned terracotta tiling, S room (undercroft to hall) has black and white marble floor and remains of 5 stone and cemented- brick octagonal columns with moulded bases and capitals. Remains of attached octagonal staircase tower on SW angle. Some C15 roof wind braces fixed to walls. Stone base of 1806 entrance porch on S side. (Pevsner (1977) ).
Listing NGR: TL3453002720
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157317
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
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