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Dancers Hill House is a
Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
house in Dancers Hill,
Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...
, England. The current house dates from , with later additions, and was probably built for Charles Ross, a Westminster builder, who leased 10 acres from David Hechstetter Jr. for 80 years in 1750. The grotto north-east of the house is also Grade II listed. The house has been used as a school, and during the Second World War it was part of Camp 33, which housed Italian prisoners of war. In 2018, the owners, Nigel and Melanie Walsh, who bought the house in 1992, offered it for sale by raffle, with a winner being drawn in January 2020.


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Grade II listed houses in Hertfordshire Grottoes Neoclassical architecture in Hertfordshire Palladian architecture in England Buildings and structures completed in the 18th century Country houses in Hertfordshire Former school buildings in the United Kingdom World War II prisoner-of-war camps in England {{UK-listed-building-stub