THE BRICKET PICTURE HOUSE AND LITTLE BRICKET
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102866
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sep-1984
- Statutory Address:
- THE BRICKET PICTURE HOUSE AND LITTLE BRICKET, SCHOOL LANE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE BRICKET PICTURE HOUSE AND LITTLE BRICKET, SCHOOL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Stephen
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 12751 00432
Details
TL 10 SW ST STEPHEN SCHOOL LANE
(north west side)
BRICKET WOOD COMMON
12/341 The Bricket Picture House
and Little Bricket
II
House, now divided into two residences,
built by the architect Frederick Wallen for himself, c.1890. The
upper floor of the front part of the house has a remarkable set
of plaster reliefs. Ground floor is red and brown brick.
Cement bands. Mosaic panels beneath the slightly jettied half-
timbered upper floor. Machine tile roof. Front part (The
Bricket Picture House) is one and a half storeys; rear part is
1 storey and attics. The front part has glazing bar casements,
those of ground floor with small panes top and bottom. 2 window
front, the left window a square bay carried through the eaves. S
gable end has a central ground floor square window bay, upper
floor with a trefoil-headed casement. Timbered gable projects
slightly. The relief pictures are carried round three sides of
this block. Set in the panels of the timber frame, the figures
are in red plaster with brown and white plaster backgrounds.
They show late C19 sporting activities, often crossing several
panels. On the front elevations the scenes include a hunt, a 4-
man scull and a wrestling match. The hunt continues on the N
gable end. On the S gable end the panels are quite badly
weathered and include a cricket and rugby match. Behind the
front block the house is lower. The rear part (Little Bricket)
has no reliefs. It has half-timbered gables and dormers, the N
side with a C20 tile-hung attic. Projecting wing on S side is
said to have been a chapel. (A Souvenir of Bricket Wood, The
Bricket Wood Society (1982)).
Listing NGR: TL1275100432
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163885
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
A Souvenir of Bricket Wood, (1982)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
