War Memorial in Front of John O'gaddesden's House
WAR MEMORIAL IN FRONT OF JOHN O'GADDESDEN'S HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174572
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial in Front of John O'gaddesden's House
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL IN FRONT OF JOHN O'GADDESDEN'S HOUSE
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- Date:
- 2004-06-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/12670/06
- Rights:
- © Mr Robert Walkley. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174572
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial in Front of John O'gaddesden's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL IN FRONT OF JOHN O'GADDESDEN'S HOUSE
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:
- WAR MEMORIAL IN FRONT OF JOHN O'GADDESDEN'S HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Gaddesden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP9927213380
Details
LITTLE GADDESDEN LITTLE GADDESDEN
SP 9913 (East side)
9/189 War Memorial
- in front of
John O'Gaddesden's
House
GV II
War memorial. 1920-21. Concept and some of materials brought from Italy
by Mrs. Wheatley cousin to Lady Brownlow and wife of Lord Brownlow's
agent. Red brick piers, plinth and coping over tile creasing, plastered
panels, limestone inscribed slabs in side panels, carved Italian stone
centrepiece in Renaissance style with 2 applied inscribed veined marble
slabs. Terracotta octagonal panels in balustrade each side. Red pantiled
lean-to hood on moulded S-curved wooden brackets. War memorial to both
Wars in the form of a wayside shrine with hooded centrepiece and side
panels with quadrant swept copings. Low balustraded wall to each side
with 2 rows of terracotta wreathed roundels on octagonal blocks. Central
feature has rounded head with carved soffit 2 bracketed stages and
Renaissance carved panelled pilasters. (Senar(1983)87).
Listing NGR: SP9927213380
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 14 March 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157720
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Senar, H, Little Gaddesden and Ashridge, (1983), 87
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 14 March 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/63601
War Memorials Online, accessed 14 March 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/244572
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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