Batchworth Heath House

TQ 09 SE RICKMANSWORTH BATCHWORTH HEATH (South side)

9/116 No. 1 (Batchworth 26.2.73 Heath House)

II

House, now offices. Late C18, extended C19 and C20. Red brick. Tiled roof. 3 bay double depth plan. 2 storeys and attic. Central entrance. Door in panelled reveals. Aedicular doorcase, columns with fluted capitals, pediment with patterned soffit. Over entrance a glazing bar sash with gauged brick flat arched head. Flanking 2 storey canted bays with glazing bar sashes in reveals with sills and gauged brick flat arched heads. Plinth with moulded head. Plat band. Dentilled cornices. 9 pane attic windows. Coped parapet. Extruded end stacks with offsets. Brick parapets to double gable returns. Right return has cambered heads to windows. To left a C19 1 bay 2 storey block with a slate hipped roof. 2 blind windows on same plane with canted bay, sashes of which replaced by large 16 pane sashes. Continuous plinth. Left end ground floor lean-to and first floor blind window with cambered head. Left return of original house is stuccoed. 2 storey block added to rear left with a low gabled outshut to rear right. Further 2 storey C20 rear wing not of special interest. Interior: vase balusters and moulded handrail to stairs with double return. (Pevsner 1977).

Listing NGR: TQ0762992464