Description

TQ 19 SW BUSHEY HARTSBOURNE AVENUE (North side) Bushey Heath

10/76 No. 2 - (The Manor Lodge)

- II

House, formerly lodge to Hartsbourne Manor. Probably C17 or earlier origins. C18 casing. Late C19 alterations and additions. Probably timber framed. Whitewashed brick walls with sham timber framing. Tiled roof. Originally 2 bays with 1 bay added to left. 1-storey and attic. Central entrance, panelled door in a 2-storey late C19 gabled porch. Open timber ground floor with 4-centred heads to each side. 2-light casement with leaded panes in rendered first floor with sham timber framing. Wavy bargeboards to gable. Flanking ground floor canted bays with fishscale tiled roofs. Leaded light casements. 2-light casements in attic, 4 centred heads to each light, bargeboarded gablets. Dentilled brick eaves. Cross axial stack at right end, large base and 3 diagonally set shafts. Left hand bay is set back slightly with a separate ridge. External left end stack with a cruciform shaft. Extended to rear. Interior not inspected. Date plate 1517 clearly secondary.(Pevsner 1977).

Listing NGR: TQ1471693831

External Links

• Wikidata Q26397608

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