Mrs Howard Memorial Hall
MRS HOWARD MEMORIAL HALL, NORTON WAY SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174514
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Mrs Howard Memorial Hall
- Statutory Address:
- MRS HOWARD MEMORIAL HALL, NORTON WAY SOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174514
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Mrs Howard Memorial Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MRS HOWARD MEMORIAL HALL, NORTON WAY SOUTH
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:
- MRS HOWARD MEMORIAL HALL, NORTON WAY SOUTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 22114 32602
Details
NORTON WAY SOUTH 1. 5255 (east side) Mrs Howard Memorial Hall TL 2232 9/84 II 2. 1905-6 by B Parker and R Unwin. The first public building in the Garden City, and built as a memorial to Ebenezer Howard's first wife. The composition is a smaller scale version of Edgar Wood's Church of Christ Scientist at Manchester. Extended to the north-east by an L-shaped wing in 1907. Two storeys. Symmetrical entrance front in a distinctly eclectic manner with projecting gabled bays flanking higher central range. Hipped tiled roofs with free Tudor brick chimney shafts. Roughcast walls. Gabled bays partly tile-hung. Five-light, central dormer window below eaves of central range. Three plain windows with loops above in gables of projecting bays. Entrance with moulded brick surround and segmental arched doorway with double doors. Interior with exposed Queen Post roof and inglenook with elliptical brick arch. The extendable classroom/clubroom with its diagonally set platform is an early example of multi-use space in a public building.
Listing NGR: TL2211432602
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161891
- 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.
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