Gate Lodge, Childwick Bury Stud
GATE LODGE, CHILDWICK BURY STUD, HARPENDEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253124
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Gate Lodge, Childwick Bury Stud
- Statutory Address:
- GATE LODGE, CHILDWICK BURY STUD, HARPENDEN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253124
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Gate Lodge, Childwick Bury Stud
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATE LODGE, CHILDWICK BURY STUD, HARPENDEN 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:
- GATE LODGE, CHILDWICK BURY STUD, HARPENDEN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Michael
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14131 11478
Details
The following buildings shall be added to the list:-
ST MICHAEL
TL11SW HARPENDEN ROAD, Childwick 270-1/5/10007 (West side) Gate Lodge No.1, Childwick Bury Stud
GV II
One of a pair of matching gate lodges flanking the Entrance Gates [qv] to Childwick Bury Stud from Harpenden Road: No.1 on south side of gateway. Circa 1888. Possibly by Col.R.W.Edis FRIBA, in a Domestic Revival style, for Sir John Blundell Maple M.P., founder of the stud. Brick with dressed stone and timber details, timber framed gables with roughcast panels; plain tile roofs with wide eaves and gables with widely projecting verges with barge boards; a central, brick, cruciform ridge stack with brick cornice and ceramic chimney pots. Plan: designed for picturesque effect; paralel with the entrance drive an end-gabled block with half-hipped lean-to against the east gable facing towards the road, in the centre of the entrance front facing the drive a lower wing with a central cross gable flanked by catslides; on each side of the wing a recessed entrance porch with flanking screen wall, at rear a central, cross-gabled wing. Exterior: single storey; brick offset plinth; at each end of the front both recessed entrance porches have flanking screen walls of brick to half height and timber posts above supporting roof, over the entry to each porch a shallow, segmental, arched timber brace; on the front in the centre of the wing a canted oriel casement window, of four lights with glazing bars, is supported on a pair of shaped timber brackets, above the oriel a timber framed infill within the apex of the cross-gable verges, the feet of the gable verges, on either side of the oriel, supported on a shaped timber brackets; in the west end wall a four-light stone framed and mullioned casement window with glazing bars, and, with similar details, in the east gable-end wall a three-light casement and in the gable-end wall of the rear cross wing rear a four-light casement. Interior: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TL1413111478
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436260
- 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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