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Latitude: 51.6522 / 51°39'8"N
Longitude: 0.023 / 0°1'22"E
OS Eastings: 540048
OS Northings: 196764
OS Grid: TQ400967
Mapcode National: GBR LJ.JH2
Mapcode Global: VHHMR.CQ0R
Plus Code: 9F32M22F+V6
Entry Name: Lippittshill Lodge
Listing Date: 22 March 1974
Last Amended: 23 March 1974
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1337480
English Heritage Legacy ID: 117654
ID on this website: 101337480
Location: Epping Forest, Essex, IG10
County: Essex
District: Epping Forest
Civil Parish: Waltham Abbey
Traditional County: Essex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Essex
Church of England Parish: High Beach Holy Innocents
Church of England Diocese: Chelmsford
Tagged with: Gatehouse
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LIPPITTS HILL
Lippittshill Lodge
GV
II
Circa 1824 on site of an earlier house. Stucco, hipped Welsh slate roof. Three storeys with plinth, quoins, modillion cornice. Three sash windows in architrave surrounds, lower side windows three light, first floor cornices on consoles supporting pediments. Door cornice hood in centre on brackets and fluted half columns with bases, no capitals. Two storey two window wing.
Listed partly for historical interest as a former private asylum which housed the poet John Clare, 1837-40. The building then known as Dr Allen's Lunatic Asylum, Leopard's Hill Lodge.
Lippithill Lodge and Grotto form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ4004896764
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