Garden Walls,and Pier at North West Corner at Gilston Park
GARDEN WALLS,AND PIER AT NORTH WEST CORNER AT GILSTON PARK, GILSTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175762
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Walls,and Pier at North West Corner at Gilston Park
- Statutory Address:
- GARDEN WALLS,AND PIER AT NORTH WEST CORNER AT GILSTON PARK, GILSTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175762
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Walls,and Pier at North West Corner at Gilston Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDEN WALLS,AND PIER AT NORTH WEST CORNER AT GILSTON PARK, 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:
- GARDEN WALLS,AND PIER AT NORTH WEST CORNER AT GILSTON PARK, 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 44221 13151
Details
TL 41 SW GILSTON GILSTON LANE (west side)
2/42 Garden walls, and pier at NW corner at Gilston Park -
GV II
Garden walls. C18, reconstructed 1851 in works by P C Hardwick for John Hodgson Esq at Gilston Park (date on Gardener's Cottage at SW corner). Tall red brick walls 13.5" thick in Flemish bond. Heavy flat slate coping slabs. Taller square pier at NW corner nearest drive, with moulded stone capping and ball finial. Pilaster buttresses at intervals on inner face. Older brickwork in sandy red bricks incorporating large pebbles, and irregular vitrified headers. Sloping buttresses added on inner face of W wall. Pilasters on outer face of N wall in area where wall has been raised for C19 green houses inside. Brick courses follow the natural slope and the N and S walls are carried over a brook on round arches. Door in S wall has flat gauged arch. Gardener's Cottage much altered and not of special interest. A large rectangular walled kitchen garden, the walls reconstructed as part of the works by P C Hardwick at Gilston Park and of special interest as a late dated example of this traditional feature of the English country house.
Listing NGR: TL4422113151
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159918
- 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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