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THE GARDENS HOUSE AND THREE WALLED GARDENS,INCLUDING OCTAGONAL GREEN HOUSE

THE GARDENS HOUSE AND THREE WALLED GARDENS,INCLUDING OCTAGONAL GREEN HOUSE, MARFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1100991
Date first listed:: 09-Dec-1983
Statutory Address:: THE GARDENS HOUSE AND THREE WALLED GARDENS,INCLUDING OCTAGONAL GREEN HOUSE, MARFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1100991
Date first listed:: 09-Dec-1983
Statutory Address 1:: THE GARDENS HOUSE AND THREE WALLED GARDENS,INCLUDING OCTAGONAL GREEN HOUSE, MARFORD ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE GARDENS HOUSE AND THREE WALLED GARDENS,INCLUDING OCTAGONAL GREEN HOUSE, MARFORD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Welwyn Hatfield (District Authority)
Parish:: Hatfield
National Grid Reference:: TL 20957 13154

Details

Lemsford TL 21 SW HATFIELD MARFORD ROAD (north side)

5/177 'The Gardens': House and three walled gardens, including octagonal green house

GV II

House and adjoining walled gardens. Mid-late C18. Probably by James Paine for Sir Mathew Lamb. Red brick. House has slate roof with central chimney stack. 2 storeys with 3-sided E end. Recessed sash windows with gauged brick heads and 1st floor brick sill band. Flush panel double doors on N. Garden walls are 3-4 metres high and attached to W side of house. Shallow pyramid coping. 2 long rectangular gardens on E. Roughly square-plan garden on N with outbuildings attached to canted N walls. Segmental-headed double gate on W side flanked by large heraldic panel fragments with lion and dragon. In centre of N garden is an octagonal greenhouse of early C19. Red brick piers and lower walls. Cast iron roof structure and wooden glazing bars. Moulded wood cornice with dentil course to square vestibule on S side. Each face has 3 6-pane windows, the centre one a side-hung ventilator.

Listing NGR: TL2095713154

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 158440
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 21 Hertfordshire,

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.