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Hill Street, ST. ALBANS, AL3 4QT

The bottom end of Lower Dagnall Street with Mount Pleasant in the background.

Row of houses in Verulam Road. The furthest one, no 60, is marked on the 1879-80 1:500 OS Plan as a Nurses' Home; the terrace (nos 52 - 58) is later, first appearing on the 1889 1:10:560 map and the house on the right (nos 50/50a) would appear to have been built at the same time as the former Christ Church was converted to offices in 1974.

Grade II* Listed former 17th century Manor House with considerable alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. An Elizabethan plaster ceiling inscribed IG 1586 suggest the incorporation of an earlier building. In Edith's Streets blog it is claimed the original house here was built in 1585 by John Gape a tanner on medieval foundations which can be traced back to the 11th century. However A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 2. Originally published in 1908 Informs us John Gape who was mayor of St. Albans in 1564, 1572 and 1579 may have built it in 1568 that is carved on some of the oak ceilings of the house. (1568 is possibly a unintended transposition of 1586). This house probably built about 1668 was occupied by the Gape family descendants up until it was purchased by the current owners. It was converted into a hotel in the early 1960s by the Newling Ward family.

19th Century housing in Temperance Street. The building on the left is marked on the 1879-80 1:500 map as "Abbey School (Boys)"

Early 19th Century housing in Lower Dagnall Street. The centre pair, nos 40 - 42 (with flower baskets) is grade II listed - see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1103108.

Nos. 142-148. C17 houses of 2 storeys, plastered with steeply pitched tiled roofs. Grade II listed.

Now converted into offices

Opened in October 1853. The building is locally listed.