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ALL NATIONS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE EASNEYE

ALL NATIONS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, HOLLYCROSS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1078763
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: ALL NATIONS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE EASNEYE
Statutory Address:: ALL NATIONS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, HOLLYCROSS ROAD

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Date:: 2001-08-04
Reference:: IOE01/03904/15
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1078763
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: ALL NATIONS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE EASNEYE
Statutory Address 1:: ALL NATIONS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, HOLLYCROSS ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: EASNEYE, HOLLYCROSS ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ALL NATIONS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, HOLLYCROSS ROAD
Statutory Address:: EASNEYE, HOLLYCROSS ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Stanstead Abbots
National Grid Reference:: TL 38061 13430

Details

TL 31NW STANSTEAD ABBOTS HOLLYCROSS ROAD (east side) 5/15 Easneye (All Nations Christian College)

GV II*

Country house, now a college. 1867-8 Alfred Waterhouse for Thomas Fowell Buxton (drawings at house). Red brick with black diapering, moulded ornamental brickwork, and red tiled roofs banded with scolloped tiles. Ornamental ridge. Asymmetrical plan of 3 blocks in echelon stepping outwards NE to enclose the recessed entrance into S block of 2-storeys and attics containing the principal rooms ranged round S and W sides of a vast beamed hall, entered off-centre by a vestibule and project gabled porch. Staircase with traceried windows arranged in NW corner rising to a toplit upper hall serving the bedrooms. The middle block has the dining room and servants hall, with nursery over, and is expressed externally as part of the south block. The N block is for kitchens, dairy and staff. It is equally decorative but of one and a half storeys with giant lacarne windows and gables. Each function is expressed externally in this muscular Gothic style. Crow-stepped gables, only 3-bay windows (2- storeys, canted). Undivided sash windows with moulded brick surrounds and moulded segmental arches all struck from a radius of 9 feet (note on drawing). Main elevation faces E and has moulded double plinth, diaper patterned brickwork, deep band of moulded relief lattice panels at 1st floor, impost band, equilateral arches with hoodmoulds and decorated roundel in tympanium over upper windows, arched and corbelled eaves table. Crow-stepped gables with finials, and similar windows to 1st floor lighting the attic floor. Patterned octagonal chimneys, with moulded caps and bases. 3-storeys gabled projecting entrance porch expanded at base with battered buttresses to accommodate front door in pointed arched Gothic red terracotta doorway with segmented spiral shafts and moulded caps similar to portals of Natural History Museum London of 1872. Contemporary interior with hall fireplace and carved capitals and corbels in Mansfield stone. Granite ringed shafts to stair arcade. Dining Room panelled, with Jacobean ribbed ceiling and red and green granite Norman chimney piece. Stained glass on staircase and front window to hall (dated 1868 and with naturalistic roundels of birds, bats, butterflies, etc.). Of outstanding interest as an unaltered example of Waterhouse's country-house work with complete contemporary interiors. Estate buildings and design drawings also survive.

Listing NGR: TL3806113430

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 355918
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.