Watford: Watford Place in King Street
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Watford: Watford Place in King Street
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 22 Mar 2015
Watford Place is a Grade II Listed building and the Historic England website describes it thus:- "Large stucco faced house of circa 1797, altered circa 1822. Two storey centre, one storey wings. Parapets. Slate roofs. Centre originally 3-storeys. Five window range, square headed windows above, long round headed windows below. Glazing bar sashes. Cornice, platband between floors and moulded ground floor sill band over basement. Central 3 bay porch, 4 Ionic columns with entablature. Curving side walls with round arched openings. Wide steps up. Wings 2 windows each with cornice carried around from centre block platband. Blank arched basement openings. Garden front similar, but without porch, basement and ground floor windows set in arched recesses and simple architrave surrounds applied to 1st floor windows with flat cornices over." According to Pevsner the removal of the top storey and the addition of the Ionic portico both took place during the alterations of 1822. The building has since been used as offices.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.653084
Longitude
-0.395585