Tyttenhanger House

[1] The Tyttenhanger estate was owned by the Abbey of St Albans until the Dissolution of the Monasteries and was then granted by the Crown in 1547 to Sir Thomas Pope, founder of Trinity College, Oxford.

On her death it passed to her nephew Sir Thomas Pope Blount (1552–1638), who was High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1598.

The house which was altered and extended in the 18th century presents an impressive entrance front of three storeys with attics and nine bays.

The central five bays topped by a belfry, are flanked by projecting two bayed wings[1][4] The adjacent stable block, also of 17th-century origin, now converted to residential use, is a Grade II listed building.

[3] Field-Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander (1891–1969), who after successfully managing the British 1st Army in North Africa and Italy, from 1941 lived at Tyttenhanger House.