High Gilston
HIGH GILSTON, GILSTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175702
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- High Gilston
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH GILSTON, GILSTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175702
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- High Gilston
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH GILSTON, GILSTON LANE
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:
- HIGH GILSTON, GILSTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gilston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 44549 12757
Details
TL 4412 GILSTON GILSTON LANE (east side)
9/5 High Gilston
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GV II
Village school, now a house. '1856' on quatrefoil datestone on porch. For William Hodgson as part of Gilston Park Estate. Gothic ornamental red brick small village school facing W, now a. house. Steep old red tile roofs with tall moulded chimneys at junction of tall single storey schoolroom on N and 2 storeys cross wing on S. Tall chimney shafts unusually grouped into 2 elongated octagonal shafts above moulded base. Steep gabled, bargeboarded porch projecting in angle of wings. Front wall decorated with black headers in diamond and diaper patterns. Heavy scissors bargeboards to porch, trefoil pierced and central moulded pandant. More elaborate pierced and cusped bargeboard and pendant to cross wing. 2-light and 3-light tall timber mullioned windows with gauged arches, flush stone sills and diamond lattice cast iron windows survive in cross wing. Schoolroomconverted to one and a half storeys with box dormer and small paned sash windows. Porch doorway altered to window. Built as a Public Elementary School (mixed) for 39 children (Kelly (1914) 105). Founded by William Hodgson and in use 1856- 1959 (WEA III (1970) 65). A handsome C19 Gothic schoolhouse in the style of the Gilston Park Estate buildings under the Hodgson brothers but with added elaboration in the bargeboards and the diaper work in black headers. Part of a picturesque group of estate buildings with School Cottages (1852) to S.
Listing NGR: TL4454912757
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159913
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kellys Directory in Hertfordshire, (1914)
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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