The Brickmakers of St Albans
The Rye House
A Talk given to the St Albans & Hertfordshire Architectural & Archaeological Society at St Albans on 7th January 2003One of the Earliest Hertfordshire Brick Buildings - 1443
An engraving of the old gatehouse at Rye House, made for the book "The Beauties of England and Wales" in 1807.
In 1443, Sir Andrew Ogard was granted a licence by Henry VI to "impark and fortify the Maner of Rye". The gatehouse is all that remains of the house that Ogard built.
Talk: The oldest example of a brick building in England is Little Wenham Hall, Norfolk, built in 1260 and The Rye House gateway is the oldest surviving example of a brick building in Hertfordshire.
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Picture from Hoddesdon's Past in Pictures by David Dent
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