Hunton Bridge

History

St Paul's Church

St Paul's Church is a Grade II* listed building, dating from 1863 to 1865. It was designed by Henry Woodyer for William Jones Loyd of Langleybury House. The Old Vicarage alongside, now a private home, dates from 1879.

Public houses

Hunton Bridge currently has two public houses. It used to have five, having lost the Maltsters Arms in 1963, the Farriers Arms in 1965, and The Dog and Partridge in August 2017.{{cite book

The remaining pubs are :

• The Kings Head: a 400-year-old grade II listed building which has now been refurbished as a restaurant and bar. In the years when the turnpike ran through Hunton Bridge it served as a coaching inn;
• the Kings Lodge, which was built in 1642 as a hunting lodge for King Charles I, also refurbished as a restaurant and bar.

1 Bridge Road

The land adjacent to the Grand Union Canal and to the north of Bridge Road was in industrial use from the opening of the canal. A coal wharf known as Hunton Bridge Wharf was established approximately 100 years after the opening, consisting of a tramway, warehouse and managers dwelling. Of these buildings only the cottage remains at 1 Bridge Road.

The Old School House

The original house was demolished and replaced with the current fine brick early Georgian building which was built in the late 1720s. Subsequent changes were made during the 1800s such as the addition of the library joining the main house to the servant wing.

The schoolhouse was used for Church of England services until the building of St Paul's church across the road in Langleybury.

Hunton Canal Bridge

The original structure was demolished in 1923 and replaced with an ornate reinforced concrete skew arch. The structure includes an ornate cornice to the parapet and balustrades. The existing western edge beam was demolished in 1983 due to a vehicular impact with a new aluminium parapet. The structure was Grade II listed in 1985.

|Image:Hunton Bridge.jpg|Hunton Bridge filling station |Image:Kings_Head_Hunton_Bridge.png|Kings Head 2008 ||Kings Lodge 2008 |Image:1BridgeRoad.jpg|1 Bridge Road 1999 |Image:TheOldSchoolHouse.jpg|The Old School House 1999 |File:Hunton Bridge, St Paul's Church, Langleybury - geograph.org.uk - 128277.jpg|St Paul's Church, Langleybury (Henry Woodyer, 1863-5)

Planning history

On 28 June 1984, Three Rivers District Council Planning Committee resolved that an area of Hunton Bridge, should be designated as a Conservation Area, and subsequently extended in 1990 in terms of the Planning (Listed Building and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.

Listed buildings within the boundary include

Grade II Listed*

• Church of St. Paul
• The Kings Lodge

Grade II Listed

• Lych Gate
• Loyd Memorial Cross
• The Old School House
• The Kings Head Public House
• K6 Telephone Kiosk
• Hunton Canal Bridge

Locally Important Buildings

• 1, Bridge Road
• Brookside Cottages

References

References

1. "Fact file: Hunton Bridge". Hertfordshire.com.
2. "Church of St Paul A Grade II* Listed Building in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire".
3. (19 November 1864). "Consecration of St Paul's Church, Langleybury". Hertford Mercury and Reformer.
4. "BRIDGE CARRYING WATFORD ROAD (A41) OVER THE GRAND CANAL, Abbots Langley - 1173257 | Historic England".