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Latitude: 51.7617 / 51°45'42"N
Longitude: -0.2109 / 0°12'39"W
OS Eastings: 523570
OS Northings: 208521
OS Grid: TL235085
Mapcode National: GBR J9M.FJ0
Mapcode Global: VHGPL.9ZCB
Plus Code: 9C3XQQ6Q+MJ
Entry Name: Real Tennis Court and Exhibition Centre
Listing Date: 9 December 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1296204
English Heritage Legacy ID: 158408
ID on this website: 101296204
Location: Hatfield House Real Tennis Club, Old Hatfield, Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL9
County: Hertfordshire
District: Welwyn Hatfield
Civil Parish: Hatfield
Built-Up Area: Hatfield
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: Bishops Hatfield Saint Etheldreda with Saint Luke
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Old Hatfield
TL 2308 HATFIELD HATFIELD PARK
(west side)
15/145 Real Tennis Court and
Exhibition Centre
-
GV II
Real Tennis Court and Riding School, the latter now an exhibition
centre. Built 1840 by the Second Marquess of Salisbury. Facade
to Palace courtyard is a Tudor style composition with imitation
windows, 2 storeys and attics. Red brick. Plain tiles. 2
light blank windows faced with Welsh slate. Gables with
roundels. Left side projects forward slightly and has 2 gables
and a small gabled tower on right. 2 4-centre arch moulded brick
doorways. Right side has a crow-stepped gable over a 3-light
elliptical-arched 1st floor window. Similar right hand tower
completes the picturesque group. Plain brick rear elevations,
the tennis court with continuous upper-floor bands of sash
windows. Interior of tennis court has York stone floor with
original numbered markings painted on floor and walls. Sloping
roofs over 3 colonnaded viewing galleries. One of four or five
such courts in the country.
Listing NGR: TL2357008521
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