Ladygrove Stud Farm Including Dairy Cottage, Ladygrove Lodge, and Kiln Wood Lodge

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TL 1824 PRESTON SCHOOL LANE (South side)

9/114 Ladygrove Stud Farm including 14.1.77 Dairy Cottage, Ladygrove Lodge, and Kiln Wood Lodge (formerly listed as Two cottages and farm buildings around courtyard at Minsden Farm)

GV II

Model farm with 2 farm cottages, now a stud farm with staff cottage, and two separate houses. 1913 by E.L. Lutyens for H.G. Fenwick as home farm to Temple Dinsley (q.v.). Divided in late 1970s. Dark red brick in English-bond with light red brick dressings. Steep handmade red tile roofs with continuous tile corbel course to bellcast eaves. A compact farm layout of single-storey, and 16-storeys buildings arranged around a large enclosed courtyard and two narrower open-ended courts to S, on a N-S axis, designed to appear symmetrical as approached from N between twin cottages and through archway into large courtyard. The former dairy now Dairy Cottage occupies the centre of this court surrounded on E, W and S by stables. Taller gambrel-roofed cross range on N side has 2-storeys centre part with tall gabled projection flanked by recessed balustraded staircases to E and W rising to hip-roofed projections with doors to stair and at high-level to court. Lozenge pattern of dove-holes with tile ledges in gable of projection and splayed doorway with round-arch, tile filled spandrels and segmental outer arch. Similar doorways now converted to windows at junction of single-storey outbuilding ranges to the 2 cottages, and as front door to Dairy Cottage. 3 lower pitched roof ranges run southward defining a cattle-yard on E and a horse-yard on W. The central and E ranges have cross-gables at their N ends, with louvred vent in tilehung N gable, and heavy wooden sliding door. S part of W range is a taller barn with hipped porch and boarded double doors on W side. N part stables opening into yard. The buildings present a long elevation to lane on E with 5 small -2-lights brick mullioned windows with tile lintels and drips. Typical Lutyens chimney with clasping corner pilasters and waisted top near W end of gambrel roofed cross-range. Copied on Dairy Cottage when re-roofed and converted in 1970 after being derelict. Wall built across archway then closing axial approach from S. Tall archway in middle of S crossrange has arched-braces and heavy posts at each end and wind-vane with a cow on top in centre. 2 symmetrically disposed 1 storeys small cottages at N with steep mansard roofs with hipped dormers at eaves, lower hipped projection central on N for stair with entrance in side facing drive, and outshut under catslide roof to outer side. Flush wooden 2-lights casement windows, under segmental arches to ground floor. Some alteration to entrances to provide recessed porches. Each has a tall central chimney with clasping corner pilasters, waisted top, and projecting panels on N and S faces. Originally named Home Farm, later Minsden Farm. (Pevsner (1977)249: Lutyens Exhib Cat (1981)194).

Listing NGR: TL1865924392

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 249
Arts Council of Great Britain Catalogue in The Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens 1889-1944, (1981), 194

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