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Restoration and Repair/ Breakspear Place   Breakspear House was built as Langley House in the 1750’s by Sir John Cope Freeman. Over the years some notable inhabitants have been Mr. Robert Henty, brother of the author, G. A. Henty and Sir Robert Molesworth Kindersley, Governor of the Bank of England. Langley House it remained until 1929 when the house was sold to the Order of the Salvatorean Fathers to become a seminary known as Breakspear College. The grand billiard room of the house became the chapel and then opened to the public as the Church of St. Saviours. Developed by Kebbell Homes, this project has converted Breakspear Place, a Grade II listed building, into apartments rescuing the property from decay and vandalism. Where the building was carved into apartments and new walls were built, cornices were replicated and installed to provide original features to complete rooms. The circular ceiling of the grand billiard room was in need of repair and stabilising from above including the treatment of dry rot to prevent areas collapsing. The paint was removed from the mouldings and rubber moulds taken to repair areas that had been either vandalised or removed to carry out necessary restoration work. External mouldings were made good and totally reinstated where necessary. Breakspear Place, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire.
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