Roxford House
Roxford House, St Mary's Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367440
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Roxford House
- Statutory Address:
- Roxford House, St Mary's Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367440
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Roxford House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Roxford House, St Mary's 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:
- Roxford House, St Mary's Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hertingfordbury
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 30336 10464
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 August 2023 to amend the name of the architect and to reformat the text to current standards
TL 31 SW
6/73
HERTINGFORDBURY
Hertingfordbury
ST. MARY'S LANE (West side)
Roxford House
(Formerly listed as Roxford)
24.11.66
GV
II
House. Early C18 for J Brassey. Extended mid C19 and 1960 by E Maxwell Fry. Brown brick with red brick dressings, part whitewashed. Tiled roofs. Originally three bays, double depth. Two storeys and attic. Original front to South East faces River Lea and moated site of earlier manor house, now garden.
Central entrance with glazed door, flanking 16 pane sashes in shallow reveals with segmental heads. Plat band to first floor with iron frame small pane mullion and transom casements. Timber eaves cornice. Two flat headed three light small pane dormers over outer bays. Gambrel roof. Four large internal end stacks. To left one storey C19 dairy with glazed door to garden with segmental head. Dentilled eaves to hipped slate roof. Left return entrance and casements. To rear two bays, ground floor three light iron frame casements with segmental heads, that to left extending over a door, first floor iron frame casements, a two light flat headed dormer, leaded lights.
Attached to right end of C18 house and projecting slightly further into garden is mid C19 addition. Right return is now principal entrance elevation. Three bays, that to left larger and slightly projecting under a gable. Recessed sashes with gauged brick flat arched heads, continuous plat band, blind opening in attic, wavy bargeboards. To right panelled door in brick porch with gauged brick flat arch and simple cornice, ground floor 12 pane and first floor 16 pane sashes, hip to right. Projecting into garden from C19 block is 1960 weatherboarded and glazed studio.
Interior: stop chamfered bearers and fireplace lintel, early C19 staircase. Joseph Haydn stayed at Roxford in 1791-2 as a guest of N Brassey.
(VCH 1912, East Herts Archaeological Society Transactions, 1916, vol.6, pt.2, p.188: Hertfordshire Countryside, vol.25, 143, March 1971, p.38: Pevsner 1977).
Listing NGR: TL3033610464
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 356179
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Transactions in East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Transactions, Vol. 6, (1916), 188
Hertfordshire Countryside in March, Vol. 25, (1971), 38
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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