Gorseside
GORSESIDE, BERKHAMSTED HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390992
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Gorseside
- Statutory Address:
- GORSESIDE, BERKHAMSTED HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390992
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Gorseside
- Statutory Address 1:
- GORSESIDE, BERKHAMSTED 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:
- GORSESIDE, BERKHAMSTED HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Berkhamsted
- National Grid Reference:
- TL0040908831
Details
814/0/10026
15-JUN-04
BERKHAMSTED
BERKHAMSTED HILL
Gorseside
GV
II
Offices, formerly farmhouse. C17, with C18 and C19 [including the gabled entrance porch dated ¿B/1873¿] and C20 additions. Timber framed with red brick skin and plain tiled roof. 2 Storeys and 1 ½ storeys.
EXTERIOR: The entrance front has a C17 gabled wing to left of centre. To its right is the C17 spinal wing which has been raised in height and to the left is a C19 addition in darker, plum brick. The gabled porch is at right of centre. Windows across the front are timber casements with cambered heads, mostly of 3 lights, an exception is a first floor canted oriel at far right. Stacks to either side of the gabled wing and at right. To the rear is an added C20 2-storey bathroom wing at left of centre and a lean to the ground floor. At left of this is a 1 ½ story range of C18 date with gabled dormer which shows the probable height of the spinal C17 range before its roof was raised.
INTERIOR: There is York stone flooring to the entrance hall. In the spinal wing there is evidence of a corner post, a substantial spine beam and a girding beam at ground floor level. To the cross wing there is a substantial spine beam at ground floor level. In the roof space the cross wing has a clasped-purlin roof with 2 wind braces and a timber framed gable end with brick infill.
The building has been the subject of a thermographic survey and this has revealed that there is closed studded external walling in the gable end of the cross wing and also to the spinal range, including the close-studded gable-end imbedded in the walling which was later raised in height. To the 1 ½ storey wing at the rear is thinner scantling studding with passing bracing which would imply that this is an C18 addition.
This building has group value with The Mansion, Berkhamsted Hill [q.v.].
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 491289
- 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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