Real Tennis Court And Exhibition Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Exhibition centre, real tennis court.
Real Tennis Court And Exhibition Centre
- WRENN ID
- waiting-paling-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Exhibition centre, real tennis court
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Hatfield TL 2308 HATFIELD HATFIELD PARK (west side)
15/145 Real Tennis Court and Exhibition Centre -
GV II
Real Tennis Court and Riding School, the latter now an exhibition centre. Built 1840 by the Second Marquess of Salisbury. Facade to Palace courtyard is a Tudor style composition with imitation windows, 2 storeys and attics. Red brick. Plain tiles. 2 light blank windows faced with Welsh slate. Gables with roundels. Left side projects forward slightly and has 2 gables and a small gabled tower on right. 2 4-centre arch moulded brick doorways. Right side has a crow-stepped gable over a 3-light elliptical-arched 1st floor window. Similar right hand tower completes the picturesque group. Plain brick rear elevations, the tennis court with continuous upper-floor bands of sash windows. Interior of tennis court has York stone floor with original numbered markings painted on floor and walls. Sloping roofs over 3 colonnaded viewing galleries. One of four or five such courts in the country.
Listing NGR: TL2357008521
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