Molewood House Molewood Lodge
MOLEWOOD HOUSE, MOLEWOOD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268836
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Molewood House Molewood Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- MOLEWOOD HOUSE, MOLEWOOD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268836
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Molewood House Molewood Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOLEWOOD HOUSE, MOLEWOOD ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- MOLEWOOD LODGE, MOLEWOOD 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:
- MOLEWOOD HOUSE, MOLEWOOD ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- MOLEWOOD LODGE, MOLEWOOD 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 31722 13549
Details
HERTFORD
TL3113NE MOLEWOOD ROAD
817-1/5/121 (West side)
Molewood House and Molewood Lodge
II
House, formerly miller's house to Molewood Mill (not
included), now subdivided into 2 dwellings. c1840, altered and
extended late C19 and 1920s. Brick, with lined-out stucco
beneath low pitched Welsh slated roofs behind parapeted south
front, but exposed as low gables on west. Stuccoed chimneys.
PLAN: 3-bay front with central entry, and long rear service
wing. Enlarged to double width in 1920s.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. First floor has 3 recessed 16-pane sash
windows, twin blind boxes with sawtooth valances, stucco
sills, plat band at first-floor level. Ground floor with 2
larger 16-pane sashes, left and right of central doorway, with
twin leaf half-glazed doors with flush lower panels. These are
recessed within a panelled surround, and flanked by fluted
Tuscan Doric pilasters with modern cornice hood above.
East elevation has ground floor doorcase with Tuscan Doric
fluted antae and responds, C20 flat hood, and half-glazed door
with recessed lower panel.
West (garden) elevation has double gabled low pitched roofs
with 2 long 12-pane sash windows each with blind box to first
floor, that to left above late C20 French windows.
Left of garden elevation has wing built in early 1920s with
multi-pane metal casement windows and hipped asbestos tile
roof.
INTERIOR: has simple mid C19 joinery, 6-panel doors with
central moulded bead and broad architraves, open string stair
with nosed treads, moulded hardwood handrail and stick
balusters.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Molewood Mill was included in the Domesday
Book for Bengeo, and continued in operation as a corn mill
until 1888 when it was bought by Hertford Corporation to
establish a pumping station for the town's water supply.
(Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 79).
Listing NGR: TL3172213549
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461383
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 79
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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