Rawdon House

Rawdon House

Rawdon House is a former residence in the High Street of Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, England. It was built as a house in 1622 by Marmaduke Rawdon,[1] and extended in 1879. The Jacobean and Victorian wings of the building are Grade II* listed.[2] In 1898 it became St Monica's Priory, a convent of Augustinian canonesses, a use that lasted to 1969, since when it has been converted for use as offices.[3][4]

Guilielma Maria Penn, wife of William Penn, died in Hoddesdon in 1694, and tradition has it that she was staying then at Rawdon House.[5]

  1. ^ "Hoddesdon, Urban and Rural". An inventory of the historical monuments in Hertfordshire. Institute of Historical Research. 1910. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  2. ^ British Listed Buildings, listing for Rawdon House.
  3. ^ ourbroxbourne.org.uk, Rawdon House, A seventeenth-century house by Nicholas Blatchley Archived 2013-04-23 at archive.today
  4. ^ William Page, ed. (1912). "Parishes: Broxbourne with Hoddesdon". A History of the County of Hertford: volume 3. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  5. ^ Jenkins, Freame, and Penn, p. 348.