GARDEN HOUSE AND WALLS AND GATES OF ADJOINING WALLED GARDENS

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1103237
Date first listed:: 27-May-1968
List Entry Name:: GARDEN HOUSE AND WALLS AND GATES OF ADJOINING WALLED GARDENS
Statutory Address:: GARDEN HOUSE AND WALLS AND GATES OF ADJOINING WALLED GARDENS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1103237
Date first listed:: 27-May-1968
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: GARDEN HOUSE AND WALLS AND GATES OF ADJOINING WALLED GARDENS
Statutory Address 1:: GARDEN HOUSE AND WALLS AND GATES OF ADJOINING WALLED GARDENS

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:: GARDEN HOUSE AND WALLS AND GATES OF ADJOINING WALLED GARDENS

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: St. Paul's Walden
National Grid Reference:: TL1914721785

Details

TL 12 SE 4/183

ST PAUL'S WALDEN ST PAUL'S WALDEN BURY

Garden House and walls and gates of adjoining walled gardens (formerly listed as The Garden at St Paul's Walden Bury)

27.5.68 GV II

House and walls and gates of walled gardens. C18, the house c.1770 said to be for head gardener. Red brick walls and house with roughcast W front and S end. Steep pitched hipped slate roof. A 2-storeys, 3 windows, symmetrical Strawberry Hill Gothick house facing W with large walled gardens to rear stepping up slope to N. 3m high buttressed garden walls and wrought iron double gates on S side with concave pointed overthrow. House has plat-band, arched and coved eaves cornice all round. Central entrance, end chimneys plan. Projecting centre to W front with ogee-headed upper window flanked by quatrefoil headed windows. Painted heads and Y-tracery to end windows. Ground floor windows with 4 pointed heads and 6-panels door with pointed head under rectangular label mould like ground floor windows. Rear (E) side to garden in red brick has windows with pointed heads and 2-lights leaded casements. 4-light central 1st floor window with ogee head over pointed doorway.

Listing NGR: TL1914721785

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 162976
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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

Legal

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