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Tatmore Place

A Grade II Listed Building in St Ippolyts, Hertfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.9209 / 51°55'15"N

Longitude: -0.2814 / 0°16'52"W

OS Eastings: 518289

OS Northings: 226103

OS Grid: TL182261

Mapcode National: GBR H68.FPN

Mapcode Global: VHGNS.2ZMB

Plus Code: 9C3XWPC9+9F

Entry Name: Tatmore Place

Listing Date: 28 May 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1347410

English Heritage Legacy ID: 162677

ID on this website: 101347410

Location: Gosmore Hill, North Hertfordshire, SG4

County: Hertfordshire

District: North Hertfordshire

Civil Parish: St Ippolyts

Traditional County: Hertfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire

Church of England Parish: St Ippolyts

Church of England Diocese: St.Albans

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Description


ST IPPOLLITTS PRESTON ROAD
TL 12 NE (West side)

3/65 Tatmore Place
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GV II

Country house, now a laboratory and offices. 1908 by John Belcher
(1841-1913) for Sir Joseph Child Priestley (1862-1941), non-domestic
uses since 1939. Red brick with blue headers in English-bond, stone
dressings and windows, steep slate roofs in graduated courses. A
compact, large 2-storeys and attics, L-shaped house in Early English
Renaissance revival style set in its own grounds facing E and N. Tall
stone mullioned and transomed windows. Brick chimneys with 2 pilaster
strips to each face. Single-storey hipped rear service wing. Moulded
stone doorways with 4-centred arched heads. E entrance front symmetrical
with projecting 2-storeys and attics central porch flanked by 2-storeys
semi-octagonal bay windows. Round arched entrance with splayed reveals,
double keystone and steps continuing up to half glazed double doors.
Doric stone order to ground floor, Ionic order to 1st floor with
triangular pediment. Gable parapet to porch has corbelled kneelers,
finial and balls. Round headed upper lights in windows, transoms to
ground floor windows. Stone string courses. Armorial crest over
entrance. Badge and '1908' on rainwater heads. N front terraced with
2-storeys rectangular bay windows at each end, gabled centre with
semi-octagonal bay, and one window to each side. Interior planned round
central staircase. Oak stair round small square well with moulded and
splat balusters, arcaded at ground floor, and lit by large 5-lights
stained glass window. Segmental arched panelled, stone floored, entrance
hall with prominent cornice. 3-panels heavy oak doors in deep moulded
doorcases. Drawing room 2 steps down with ceiling of heavy moulded beams
and joists giving coffered effect. Panelled to 3/4 height. Arcaded
openwork upper part to elaborate chimneypiece in Jacobean style.
Elaborate panelling of doors. (Attribution established by Mr. Fleck of
Hitchin Museum from local authority building records: for client see
Priestley's monument at N end of Preston churchyard nearby).


Listing NGR: TL1828926103

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