Hart House is a Grade II listed building in the Redbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1979. Hospital.
Hart House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-pedestal-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Redbridge
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1979
- Type
- Hospital
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
HIGH ROAD 1. 5027 (East Side) Woodford Green Hart House TQ 4092 7/5 II 2. Now a hospital. Early C19, 1816 NCH. Three storeys, stucco, 2+3+2 sash windows, the centre recessed and with a one storey Ionic 6-columned portico in antis between the wings. Double bands over ground floor; cornice and blocking course, hipped slate roof. Garden front with slightly projecting centre crowned by a pediment. Interior: Entrance hall with small Wyatt-style staircase (iron balusters with lead enrichment). Painted and gilded cornice; similar cornices elsewhere. History. The original Hart House, or Harts was built in 1617 by Sir Richard Handforth Master of the Wardrobe to James I. Arthur Onslow, Speaker of the House in the first half of the C18, was born here. It later became the property of the Warner family of whom Richard Warner became a famous naturalist, and who published "Plantae Woodfordiensis" in 1771.
Listing NGR: TQ4033392150
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