Wych Elms and Attached Wall, Goldings Park
WYCH ELMS AND ATTACHED WALL, GOLDINGS PARK, NORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268821
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Wych Elms and Attached Wall, Goldings Park
- Statutory Address:
- WYCH ELMS AND ATTACHED WALL, GOLDINGS PARK, NORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268821
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Wych Elms and Attached Wall, Goldings Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- WYCH ELMS AND ATTACHED WALL, GOLDINGS PARK, 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:
- WYCH ELMS AND ATTACHED WALL, GOLDINGS PARK, 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:
- TL3115814206
Details
HERTFORD
TL3114SW NORTH ROAD, Goldings
817-1/5/308 (West side)
Wych Elms and attached wall,
Goldings Park
GV II
Estate gardener's cottage. 1912-3. Architect HS
Goodhart-Rendel. Red brick, Flemish bond, tilehanging, orange
sandfaced clay tiled roof. Coupled square shafted
chimneystacks backing formerly balustraded, lead flat roof
above west elevation. Vernacular Revival style. Central entry
double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attics, and 2 storey. East elevation
has 2 canted bay windows over brick bases, with triple sash
windows, 8:16:8 panes, beneath soffit of overhanging eaves.
Central doorway with 6-panel semicircular headed door, upper 2
glazed, red rubbed brick arch, flanking rusticated quoin
pilasters, and quoins at corners. Return elevations have
tilehung asymmetrical gables. Roof sweeps down to ground-floor
window heads on east elevation. Large 6-light wood mullion and
transom window on first floor, above 2 narrow 8 pane flush-set
sash windows on ground floor. Westward 2-storey flat-roofed
projection straddles garden wall and faces towards the
mansion.
West elevation has 2 canted brick bay windows, with projecting
plate band at first-floor level, first-floor window with brick
mullions and tile-creased transoms, original leaded lights in
metal casements now replaced with plain glass. Corbelled
cornice bands above and blocking course, formerly with turned
wood balustrade. Rusticated quoins left and right frame
central arched recess, which was designed as a garden shelter.
Roof with central gabled casement dormer on west.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the high red brick wall, Flemish bond,
dates from C18 and was part of the gardens of the earlier
Goldings mansion, demolished c1875.
HISTORICAL NOTE: HS Goodhart Rendel (1887-1959) was an
original idiosyncratic architect, whose work spanned the
transition from the Arts and Crafts Movement to Modernism.
Wych Elms was an early work, influenced by Lutyens.
(Weaver L: Country Life Book of Cottages: London: 1913-:
63-8).
Listing NGR: TL3115814206
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461410
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Weaver, L, Country Life Book of Cottages, (1913), 63-68
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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