Long Meadow Woodene
LONG MEADOW, NOTTINGHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100824
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Long Meadow Woodene
- Statutory Address:
- LONG MEADOW, NOTTINGHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100824
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Long Meadow Woodene
- Statutory Address 1:
- LONG MEADOW, NOTTINGHAM ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- WOODENE, NOTTINGHAM ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LONG MEADOW, NOTTINGHAM ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- WOODENE, NOTTINGHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Three Rivers (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 02603 94178
Details
TQ 09 SW RICKMANSWORTH NOTTINGHAM ROAD (Southwest side) Heronsgate
8/206 Long Meadow 27.7.72 and Woodene (The latter was previously listed as Wood Dane)
GV II
Pair of semi-detached houses. 1846-7 for Chartist Co-operative Land Company. Stuccoed brick. Welsh slate roof. 2 storey pedimented central block with slightly recessed wings, originally 1 storey, 1:2:1, an arrangement not found in other Chartist settlements. Sashes to Woodene, casements to Long Meadow, some glazing bars. In pediment a rectangular panel with sides extended downwards, a sign used throughout O'Connorville. Original entrance on right gable end of 1 storey wing with a pedimental headed surround, now a window. Similar panel in gable. king to left raised to 2 storeys, sash to front, a further 1 storey block to left with pedimental headed surround to gable end entrance. 2 storey wing has similar panel in gable over a round light. Axial ridge stack. Extensions to rear. Interior not inspected. Amongst the best surviving examples of the houses of O'Connorville founded by Feargus O'connor, Chartist leader, as the first settlement under his Land Plan, an important aftermath of Chartism and precursor of Garden Cities. A school and 35 cottages were built, each with 2 to 4 acres of land. (Hertfordshire Past and Present, no. 7, p,19, 1967: Pevsner 1977).
Listing NGR: TQ0260394178
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158850
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
Hertfordshire Past and Present in Hertfordshire Past and Present, (1967)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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