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Revision as of 16:48, 15 May 2020
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-08-25. Revised by 18.116.36.192, 2020-05-15.
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).[1] It is certainly now in Hertfordshire.[2]Template:PnItemQry
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.[3]
[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.[4]
Gazetteers
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
Notes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Benslow Care Homes: Robin Hood House (company website).
- ↑ Page, William, ed. The Victoria History of Hertfordshire. Vol. II (The Victoria History of the Counties of England) (London, 1908), p. 208.
- ↑ [Gardner, Herbert Colstoun, ed.] An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire (Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)) (London, 1911), p. 144.
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.
"Robin Hood", Little Gaddesden. Postcard published by Wm. F. Piggott, Leighton Buzzard, [''s.d.''] / Hertfordshire Genealogy.
