WAR MEMORIAL IN FRONT OF JOHN O'GADDESDEN'S HOUSE

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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:: WAR MEMORIAL IN FRONT OF JOHN O'GADDESDEN'S HOUSE

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Official list entry

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL IN FRONT OF JOHN O'GADDESDEN'S HOUSE

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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.

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Legacy System number:: 157720
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Senar, H, Little Gaddesden and Ashridge, (1983), 87
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 14 March 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/244572
War Memorials Register, accessed 14 March 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/63601

Legal

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