Cumberland House, Including Front Wall And Railings

TL 1012 REDBOURN LAMB LANE (east side) REDBOURN COMMON

15/226 Cumberland House, including front wall and railings (formerly listed 19.10.53 under Redbourn Common)

GV II*

Suburban house, built as hunting lodge for the Duke of Cumberland in 1745. Red brick, partly vitrified. Slate hipped roof. Contemporary service wing on S side. 1974 recessed extension on N (not of special interest). Main block is 2 storeys with attics. Parapet and cornice band. 2:3:2 replacement sash windows. Gauged brick lintels. Centre projects slightly and has round-headed 1st floor window. Fielded panel door in fielded recess. Leaded fan. Fluted Roman Doric surround: three quarter columns; entablature with mutule cornice. 3 box sash dormers. Service wing is parapeted. 1-2 storeys. C19 flush sashes. 2 tall C18 stacks. Well preserved interior. Modillioned entrance hall with arch to rear central staircase. Ground floor N rooms with doorcases and fire surrounds, the rear room with unusual beamed ceiling. Staircase has 2 carved balusters per tread and carved scrolls-on string. 1st floor front rooms on N and S have very good Palladian 'pattern book' fireplaces.

Rear elevation is 4:1:3 windows. Central tetrastyle porch with slender Tuscan columns and doors each side.

On both sides of front of house is contemporary red brick wall and railings. Walls left and right have stone coping, the right wall curving down in front of service block. Terminal piers with carved stone finials. Wall continues on N for 10 metres in chequered red brick. Iron railings with spikes and vase finials. Single gate.

Listing NGR: TL1063312266