158, WILBURY ROAD
158, WILBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1174901
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- 158, WILBURY ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 158, WILBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1174901
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- 158, WILBURY ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 158, WILBURY ROAD
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:
- 158, WILBURY ROAD
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 21873 33701
Details
WILBURY ROAD 1. 5255 No 158 TL 2133 6/156 II* 2. 1905 by John A Brodie. One of the most significant of the early Letchworth buildings both for its style and its construction. The flat roof and plain surfaces suggest affinities with pioneering work of the International Style, but the incipient classical detailing and fenestration link it to Art Nouveau and in particular Garniers 'Cite Industrielle'; The building is radically constructed using precast, reinforced concrete panels, floor and roofing elements, with the joinery cast in-situ. Two storeys. One window with recessed one window entrance bay. Conservatory extension on west side. Flat or slightly pitched roof with tall, decorated red chimney pots. Bracketted cornice with Greek fret frieze and blocking course. Architraved 2 and 3 light casement windows with cornices and glazing bars; first floor with oriel window. Corner entrance with flat roofed verandah carried on square column. The catalogue of the 1905 Cheap Cottage Exhibition states "This system of building was originally designed by Mr Brodie with the special object of providing a thoroughly sanitary and economical building, suitable in every way for the housing of the poorest classes displaced owing to the demolition of insanitary areas in Liverpool. The benefits of the system can be most fully obtained where the work to be carried out is on a considerable scale, and where approximate repetition in size of slabs is possible." (Brodie was City Engineer of Liverpool). Graded II*, as one of the earliest completely prefabricated systems in reinforced concrete in this country and one of the earliest in existence for domestic buildings.
Listing NGR: TL2187333701
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161925
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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