Description

Potters Green TL 32 SW LITTLE MUNDEN ROWNEY LANE (south side)

4/21 Rowney Priory and Rowney House (formerly listed as 4.12.51 Rowney Priory under Civil Parish of Great Munden)

- II

Country house, now 2 houses. Mid C19, said to incorporate fabric of a Benedictine nunnery founded in 1164 by Conan, Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond, reduced to a Chantry after 1457 and confiscated by the Crown 1548. Knapped flint with white brick quoins and dressings. Flint and stone arcaded screen and open porch at front. Steep old red tile roofs. 2 storeys and attics, H-shaped house facing E. Projecting gabled wings with oversailing boarded verges and recessed sash windows in moulded frames and chamfered square headed openings with moulded labels. Tall red brick central chimneys with diagonally set-square shafts. Centre screened by castellated 3-bay, 4-centred arched screen each side of square open porch with low pitched stone gable. A narrow and a wider gabled and corbelled dormer oriel flank the porch with a circular armorial window between. 4-light moulded mullioned and transomed leaded windows behind the screen flanking a half-glazed Gothick oak panelled door in a Tudor arched opening with deep reveals. Moulded cross-windows with leaded lights to left hand wing. 3 windows wide symmetrical garden front on E has 2-light cross window flanked by 3-light pilastered sash windows with round headed lights. Central French doors up 2 steps flanked by stone and flint embattled canted bays with moulded cross windows. Red tiled timber arcaded small cloister to right hand behind brick and flint screen wall to forecourt. Projecting 2-storeys range at rear with 10-light ovolo stone mullioned window over Tudor arched loggia and 6-light similar window. NW service wing projects to rear, of flint and brick with sash windows. N wing now named Rowney House. The house has a good contemporary interior with striking staircase in Jacobean style. Oak panelled room with chimney piece, Delft tiles, and small Ionic caryatids in Flemish style in Rowney House. (RCHM (1911) 104, 6: VCH (1912) 127-8: Pevsner (1977) 153).

Listing NGR: TL3473520245

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)