Former Stables to Goldings
FORMER STABLES TO GOLDINGS, NORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268817
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Former Stables to Goldings
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER STABLES TO GOLDINGS, NORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268817
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Former Stables to Goldings
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER STABLES TO GOLDINGS, NORTH 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:
- FORMER STABLES TO GOLDINGS, NORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hertford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 31068 14150
Details
HERTFORD
TL3114SW NORTH ROAD, Goldings
817-1/5/304 (West side)
Former stables to Goldings
GV II
Stables, now local authority offices and maintenance depot.
c1830, possibly incorporating structure of earlier stables
c1700; altered late C19 and C20. Yellow brick, Flemish bond,
stuccoed front, hipped Welsh slated roofs. Courtyard plan,
with internal court approached through arched gateway at
front.
EXTERIOR: 1 and 2 storeys, upper floor originally stable
lofts. Front has 2 pavilions, left and right, of stuccoed
brick, with 2 recessed wood casement windows at first floor,
in splayed surround with flat dripmoulds above. Moulded stucco
eaves band with castellated stucco parapet above, concealing
hipped Welsh slate roof. Ground floor with 2 windows, that at
left of left pavilion lengthened as door. Central link with 2
windows with dripmould heads, stuccoed eaves band and
castellated parapet, either side of slightly recessed stuccoed
Tudor arch. Above, a projecting octagonal clock turret above,
with moulded stucco corbel base, inner and outer clock faces,
octagonal bellcote above, with chamfered shouldered openings
on 4-pinnacle roof, lead covered with roll hips and with iron
weathervane finial.
Outer elevations have yellow brick walls with stucco arcaded
architrave surrounds to sash windows on ground and first
floors. Courtyard partly blocked with later buildings not of
special interest and east wing reconstructed asbestos-roofed
lean-to heightened in 1950s. Some first-floor loft doors
remain in situ. King post roof structure.
Although much altered the stables are important as the only
major surviving building associated with the earlier Goldings
house, and are an important element in the setting of the
replacement mansion of 1871-77.
(Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses: Selective Inventory: London:
1993-: 82; Hertfordshire Countryside: Campbell D: Goldings: a
curious Hertfordshire Mansion: Letchworth: 1946-1973: 34-5,
38; Dixon R: Victorian Architecture: London: 1978-: 50-2, 257;
Girouard M: The Victorian Country House: New Haven and London:
1979-: 84-5, 438).
Listing NGR: TL3106814150
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461406
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Girouard, M, The Victorian Country House, (1971), 84-85 438
Smith, J T, Hertfordshire Houses Selective Inventory, (1993), 82
Dixon, R, Muthesius, S, Victorian Architecture, (1978), 50-52 257
Hertfordshire Countryside in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1973), 34-35 38
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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