Description

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ST5772NW HENSMAN'S HILL, Clifton
901-1/14/874 (South side)
08/01/59 St Albans

GV II

Also known as: Emmaus House HENSMAN'S HILL Clifton.
Attached house, now convent. Mid-late C18, extended and
refronted late C19. Render with limestone dressings, lateral
stacks and a slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys,
attic and basement; 6-window range. Symmetrical entrance front
has a projecting centre, ground-floor cornice, first-floor
cornice extending all round, and a deep cornice, and later
left-hand 2-storey 3-window block extending forward. An open
ashlar porch has pilasters to a pediment and a semicircular
arch with a blocked archivolt, and a C20 six-panel door. Above
is a canted bay with a timber segmental pediment. Small
semicircular-arched window each side of the porch, the rest
6/6-pane sashes, central 3/6-pane attic sash, and 6-pane
lights each side. The rear elevation has a central late
Georgian style section with semicircular-arched stair windows,
and a left-hand doorway with a tented wrought-iron porch with
lattice sides. INTERIOR: rear dogleg stair with uncut string,
stick balusters and column newels; lateral entrance hall to a
left-hand late C19 dogleg stair with moulded balusters and
large newels.

Listing NGR: ST5719772874

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503335

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]