17, Moor Lane

TQ 09 SE RICKMANSWORTH MOOR LANE (North side) Rickmansworth

9/190 No. 17 27.7.72

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House, former lodge/tea pavilion to Moor Park (q.v.). 1763-5. Said to have been designed by Robert Adam for Sir L. Dundas, extended C19 and C20. Brick with stone dressings. Tiled roof, originally thatched. Built as an octagonal block with a link to a square block. 1 storey with attic to square block. C20 leaded casements throughout. Entrance with later timber and tiled porch to left on link with 2 light casement to right. Octagonal block has round-headed windows on 3 sides, gauged brick arches. All around the building runs a stone impost band with frosted rustication. Stone plinth. Gables to each of the surviving faces of the octagon with a central pyramidal roof. French windows with a blind opening above to garden. Square block has a ground floor 2 light window and first floor Diocletian window with a lowered sill in a gable on entrance front. Gable to left over link. Right return to road: large pseudo-Venetian timber window with Doric pilasters, flank tympanum, in a large relieving arch beneath a gable. Stacks to rear adjoin extensions, that to road set back slightly, similar materials, windows and a frieze imitating the original. Interior: original features removed. (VCH 1908: Country Life 6 and 13/1/1912: Colvin 1954: Pevsner 1977).

Listing NGR: TQ0647493992