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(If Known) ABBOTS HILL BLACK HILL, BLEAK HILL
HERTFORDSHIRE GARDENS TRUST LOCAL LIST: DACORUM Present Name of Site Historic Name (if known) ABBOTS HILL BLACK HILL, BLEAK HILL Parish/Town Hemel Hempstead National Grid Reference of Principal Building: TL075045 Present Area (approximate) 76 Acres Hectares Brief Description John Dickinson purchased 125 acres of farmland in the parish of Abbots Langley The house is situated on a high point with the land falling away to the south and west towards the Gade valley and the Grand Union Canal. The house was designed to have views across the valley to Nash Mill, his paper manufactory. Principal Building: The house was designed by John Dickinson and started In 1836 and is constructed of grey stone sleepers on which the London North West railway line had originally been laid. The roof is pitched with three gables and there are two wings. It was designed with only one outside door. An observatory was built but not used. The house became a school in 1912, and has been altered. The main approach is from a lodge on Lower Road between a well-spaced avenue of deciduous trees, first shown on the 1898 (2nd edition) Ordnance Survey map. The drives merge and turn south to the east of the house, where there was formerly a carriage sweep. At the top of the main drive is a metal farm gate with a self-closing hinge used on rising ground. This part of the drive still has the original flint rain gulley. The approach from Bunkers Lane is a straight carriage drive heading southwest now flanked on the northeast by a conservation area, through a previously well-wooded belt. -
4/01679/17/Mfa Roof Extension, Refurbishment and Repair, Use of Building As 9 Flats
4/01679/17/MFA ROOF EXTENSION, REFURBISHMENT AND REPAIR, USE OF BUILDING AS 9 FLATS (5 ONE-BED, 4 TWO-BED) COMMUNITY USE ON PART OF GROUND FLOOR AND RAMPED ACCESS, BIN STORAGE AREA AND PARKING (11 SPACES) Site Address NASH HOUSE, DICKINSON SQUARE, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP3 9GT Applicant Nash House Development Ltd, C/O Agent Case Officer Nigel Gibbs Referral to Due to the level of public interest and the recommendation is Committee contrary to the response from Nash Mills Parish Council to the Original and Revised Schemes 1. Recommendation 1.1 That planning permission be GRANTED. 2. Summary 2.1 In its revised form the proposal would enable to the partial rebuilding/ refurbishment of this important heritage asset in accordance with Policy CS27 of Dacorum Core Strategy. In doing so it would provide a permanent inclusive small scale community facility in part of the building's ground floor available for hire /use which accords with Policy CS23 of Dacorum Core Strategy, and the opportunity to fully acknowledge the building's historic significance. These opportunities are facilitated by the accommodation of 9 self-contained flats which accords with national and local policies focussed upon delivering new housing. 2.2 The Agent has confirmed that for viability reasons there are no remaining options to provide fewer residential units or additional community based accommodation at Nash House. 2.3 For clarification and outside the terms of reference of this application, there is no apparent inbuilt retained procedural/ legal mechanism available to LPA to separately require the full rebuilding/ reinstatement of Nash House to its former extremely high quality condition. -
Issues-Paper---Look-After-The-Env-App
45 Site No.4 Shendish Manor Location Shendish Manor, Hemel Hempstead Existing designations Green Belt Area of Special Control of Adverts Area of Archaeological Significance Agricultural Land Classification – Grade 3 Listed Buildings Heathrow Wind Turbine Safeguarding Zone Assessment against Site considered to merit designation based on criteria consideration of English Heritage guidance, advise and knowledge of Historic Gardens Trust. See detailed assessment below. 46 HERTFORDSHIRE GARDENS TRUST LOCAL LIST: DACORUM Present Name of Site Historic Name (if known) SHENDISH MANOR Parish/Town National Grid Reference of Principal Building: TL058 044 Present Area (approximate) 160 Acres (golf course and hotel) Brief Description The Shendish estate was purchased by Charles Longman, the nephew of John Longman, who had been the sleeping partner of John Dickinson (owner of Abbots Hill). The pleasure grounds, park and walled garden were laid out by Edward Kemp who used the design as an illustration in his book How to lay out a small garden (2nd Ed 1858). Kemp was a pupil of Paxton who also worked at Chatsworth and was executive landscape architect at Birkenhead Park. He was chosen as the judge for the competition to lay out Central Park in New York, which was won by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Some of his ideas were drawn from John Claudius Loudon. The estate was sold by the Longman family in 1930 and in 1937 was purchased by John Dickinson as a Guild of Sport. Principal Building: The house was built for Longman in1854-6 with a garden room wing dated 1871, new entrance porch 1902, garden porch dated 1910. -
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
GB 0046 D/Edi Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies This catalogue was digitised by The National Archives as part of the National Register of Archives digitisation project NRA 43644 The National Archives HERTFORDSHIRE ARCHIVES AND LOCAL STUDIES D/EDi JOHN DICKINSON AND COMPANY LIMITED Records of John Dickinson and Company, 1742 - 1989. [Including: records from the establishment of the business in 1804 by John Dickinson; the partnership of Longman and Dickinson; John Dickinson and Company; John Dickinson and Company Limited after incorporation; and the Dickinson Robinson Group, when the Company merged with ES & A Robinson in 1966; records of the subsidiary company John Dickinson and Company (Australasia) Limited [established 1917]; and records of Millington and Sons Limited, a company it took over in 1932, for the period prior to the take over] The catalogue should be consulted in conjunction with two previously catalogued archives for the company, see D/EDk and D/EB1648, both compiled in 1978. The records contained therein mainly comprise title deeds to the company property and premises and a few miscellaneous items. See also the extensive collection of photographs and Company journals deposited at this office Aces 2495,3084,3191 Catalogue compiled Dec 1998 VH CONTENTS a INTRODUCTION p 2 - 16 * ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY p 2 - 10 * CUSTODIAL HISTORY p 11 * ARRANGEMENT p 11 * CATALOGUE CONTENTS/STRUCTURE p 12 * ACCESS AND COPYRIGHT p 13 * RELATED RECORDS HELD ELSEWHERE p 13 * BIBLIOGRAPHY p 14 - 15 * EDITORIAL NOTES p 16 . GLOSSARY OF TERMS p 16 a CATALOGUE p!7-85 1 INTRODUCTION TO CATALOGUE COMPANY HISTORY JOHN DICKINSON John Dickinson (1782 - 1869) the founder of the Company, was the eldest son of Captain Thomas Dickinson, R N and his wife Frances.