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© Mr Graham R. Heasman
IoE Number:
159711
Location:
ASPENDEN HALL, THE STREET (north side)
ASPENDEN, EAST HERTFORDSHIRE, HERTFORDSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Graham R. Heasman
Date Photographed:
27 May 2002
Date listed:
19 October 1951
Date of last amendment:
19 October 1951
Grade
II
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TL 3528 ASPENDEN THE STREET
(north side)
8/1 Aspenden Hall
19.10.51
GV II
Country house, now housing grain dryers. 1856 replacing Jacobean
house, for the 2nd Sir Henry Lushington. Gutted c1963 for farm
use. Stuccoed brick, low pitched roof concealed by parapets. A
large rectangular 2 storeys, 7 windows classical house facing E
in Doric style with channelled pilasters and pedimented central
feature to E front, where there is a pedimented porch supported
by twinned Doric columns. Plate glass sash windows generally,
but French windows to ground floor on W (garden) front. Moulded
base, string course and eaves to parapet breaking forward round
pilasters on all sides of house. Single storey pedimented
conservatory in middle of S end. Service wing at N demolished.
Important landscape feature and part of setting of parish church.
(VCH (1914) 17: RCHM Typescript: RCHM Monuments Threatened or
Destroyed (1963) 42).