Keeper's Cottage in Home Wood Along Track 260 Metrs From Road
KEEPER'S COTTAGE IN HOME WOOD ALONG TRACK 260 METRS FROM ROAD, GILSTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101278
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Keeper's Cottage in Home Wood Along Track 260 Metrs From Road
- Statutory Address:
- KEEPER'S COTTAGE IN HOME WOOD ALONG TRACK 260 METRS FROM ROAD, GILSTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101278
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Keeper's Cottage in Home Wood Along Track 260 Metrs From Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- KEEPER'S COTTAGE IN HOME WOOD ALONG TRACK 260 METRS FROM ROAD, GILSTON LANE
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:
- KEEPER'S COTTAGE IN HOME WOOD ALONG TRACK 260 METRS FROM ROAD, GILSTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gilston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 43505 13017
Details
TL 41 SW GILSTON GILSTON LANE (west side)
2/40 Keeper's Cottage in Home Wood along - track 260 metres from road
- II
House. '1851' on quatrefoil datestone on W gable. For John Hodgson Esq of Gilston Park, probably designed by P C Hardwick (signed drawing for kennels behind in HRO) having slate slabs and cover rolls used to roof bay window also found on Cumberland Lodge (1855) presumably by Hardwick, the architect for the main house Gilston Park. A picturesque, one and a half storeys red brick and slate Gothic keeper's house. L-shaped and facing W. Low plinth. W end of W wing- has a semioctagonal single storey stone bay window on a brick base and with 1- and 2-light transomed wooden casement windows and steep polygonal roof of large slate slabs with round-topped slate rolls at the angles, 2- light casement window over with flat gauged brick arch and flush stone sill. N side has 2 majestic tall projecting chimneys each having 2 diagonal brick shafts with moulded caps. Simple bargeboards with finial on W gable. Simpler E elevation with 2 casement windows on each floor and 4-panelled flush beaded door under gabled timber porch with slate roof. Windows have flat gauged brick arches and flush stone sills. Transomed windows on Ground floor. A deliberately picturesque Gothic estate house, one of the earliest built for John Hodgson Esq on the Gilston Park Estate probably designed by P C Hardwick who was building Gilston Park for him at the time.
Listing NGR: TL4350513017
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159914
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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