WALLS AND IRON GATES OF WALLED GARDEN AT OFFLEY PLACE TO NORTH WEST OF HOUSE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103208
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS AND IRON GATES OF WALLED GARDEN AT OFFLEY PLACE TO NORTH WEST OF HOUSE, KINGS WALDEN ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS AND IRON GATES OF WALLED GARDEN AT OFFLEY PLACE TO NORTH WEST OF HOUSE, KINGS WALDEN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Offley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14472 27054
Details
OFFLEY KINGS WALDEN ROAD
TL 1427 & TL 1426 (East side)
Great Offley
12/97 & 13/97 Walls and iron gates
- of walled garden at
Offley Place to NW
of house
GV II
Walls and gates to walled garden. C18 or early C19, gates c.1777 former
chancel screen from parish church. Red brick in Flemish-bond, wrought
iron gates. Walls forming a large polygonal enclosure, about 3M high on
S but about 4M high alongside road on W. S side has pilasters to W part
but large buttresses with 2 offsets, to E part. Moulded brick coping.
Iron screen and double gates in S wall near E end. Gothick pattern with
side panels, overthrow with scrolled cresting to each part with
quatrefoils. Elaborate similar bottom panels with lozenge and quatrefoil
shapes in lock rails. Clustered columns as standards for hanging gates
with scrolled stays to ground behind. Detail similar to remaining altar
rail in church (q.v.). (Pevsner (1977)265).
Listing NGR: TL1447227054
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163107
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 265
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
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