Robin Hood House (Little Gaddesden)

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Robin Hood House.

Robin Hood House, once an inn – the Robin Hood – then a private residence, now a privately owned and run dementia care home / Benslow Care Homes: Robin Hood House.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-08-25. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-04.

Robin Hood House was originally a village pub, the Robin Hood, but was subsequently converted into a private residence and greatly expanded. It now functions as a dementia care home, owned and run by Benslow Care Homes.

As can be seen on the Google map of the county on the page on Hertfordshire place-names, Robin Hood House is just outside the historical Hertford­shire/Bucking­ham­shire border according to the boundary data provided by the Historic Counties Trust. I follow the Victoria County History which includes it in Hertfordshire (1908). It is certainly now in Hertfordshire.

Quotations

[1908:]
Following the high road north from Hemel Hempstead may be seen near the beginning of the village Robin Hood House, a large old house of timber and stucco. It was once the Robin Hood village public-house, but has been greatly added to, and is now the residence of Mr. Alexander Murray-Smith.

[1911:]
Robin Hood House, originally an inn, stands at the end of the village, ¾ mile S. of the church. It is a two-storeyed building with attics, and is covered with cement; the roofs are tiled. It is probably of the 17th century, but the only old features now visible are some beams in the ceilings and some flat, shaped balusters in a staircase leading from the first floor to the attics.
   Condition—Good.

Gazetteers

• Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 298.

Sources

• [Gardner, Herbert Colstoun, ed.] An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire (Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)) (London, 1911), p. 208.
• Page, William, ed. The Victoria History of Hertfordshire. Vol. II (The Victoria History of the Counties of England) (London, 1908), p. 144. Web version a British History Online.

Maps

• 6" O.S. map Hertfordshire XXVI (1883-84; surveyed 1877-78)
• 6" O.S. map Hertfordshire XXVI (1899; surveyed 1897)
• 6" O.S. map Bedfordshire XXXIV.SW (1901; rev. 1900)
• 6" O.S. map Bedfordshire XXXIV.SW (1901; rev. 1900) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Bedfordshire XXXIV.SW (1925; rev. 1922)
• 6" O.S. map Bedfordshire XXXIV.SW (c. 1948; rev. 1928)
• 6" O.S. map Bedfordshire XXXIV.SW (1950; rev. 1946).

Background

• Benslow Care Homes: Robin Hood House (company website)
• Wikipedia: Little Gaddesden.

Also see

• Little Gaddesden place-name cluster
• Places named Robin Hood's House
• Public houses named after Robin Hood.

Notes

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  Robin Hood House, once an inn – the Robin Hood – then a private residence, now a privately owned and run dementia care home / Benslow Care Homes: Robin Hood House.

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  "Robin Hood", Little Gaddesden. Postcard published by Wm. F. Piggott, Leighton Buzzard, [''s.d.''] / Hertfordshire Genealogy.