TOWER LODGES

TOWER LODGES, HITCHIN ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1102809
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: TOWER LODGES
Statutory Address:: TOWER LODGES, HITCHIN ROAD

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Date:: 2001-01-07
Reference:: IOE01/03087/33
Rights:: © Miss J Johnson. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1102809
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Mar-1984
List Entry Name:: TOWER LODGES
Statutory Address 1:: TOWER LODGES, HITCHIN 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TOWER LODGES, HITCHIN ROAD

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Codicote
National Grid Reference:: TL 21897 20599

Details

TL 22 SW CODICOTE HITCHIN ROAD (east side)

3/44 Tower Lodqes

9.6.52 ( formerly listed as West Lodge at Knebworth Park) - II

Lodge and gateway. Erected 1816 by Mrs E Bulwer Lytton from material of the gatehouse destroyed in the alterations to Knebworth House in 1811. Tudor red brick with stone dressings. Some C19 red brick and stucco. 2 storeys. 2 lodges either side of C16 moulded archway, this with hood mould. Plaque over gate. 2-light Tudor windows with square moulded hoods. 3-store octagonal stair turret on right of arch with narrow slit windows and door in Tudor surround. Late-C19 right extension with reset Tudor windows. Battlemented throughout in C19 stucco.

Listing NGR: TL2189720599

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Legacy System number:: 161989
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.