20, MORGANS ROAD

Details

HERTFORD

TL3211 MORGANS ROAD
817-1/21/123 (West side)
21/03/94 No.20

II

House. 1910, with later minor alterations. By Louis Moore,
architect, for himself. Empty at the time of inspection. Built
in the Arts and Crafts style in roughcast brick, rising from a
brick plinth, with tall externally-expressed decorative brick
stacks. Plain tiled roof, the rear slope much deeper than that
to the front.
EXTERIOR: east elevation of 2 storeys with attics, 4 bays,
with off-centre doorway to left, below semicircular arch with
wide tile-on-edge surround band above narrow red brick
quoining. Stained plank door with glazed panel to centre. To
left of doorway, wide external stack, stepped and with central
panel of knapped flint, below upper-linked shafts of 3 flues,
with deep corbelled capping. To right of doorway, wide gable
to 3rd bay is roughcast save for a weatherboarded apex.
4-light timber mullioned windows with leaded lights to ground
and first floors, both below plain drop drip moulds. Above, a
2-light attic window below the weatherboarding. 4th bay with a
4-light window below dripmould to ground floor. To north of
doorway, narrow stair window at half landing level. 3 cellar
windows in, or just above brick plinth level.
West elevation with broad, off-centre gable to left with
weatherboarded apex above 2-light attic window. First-floor
windows wrap around each corner with 2 lights to each wall
face. Central canted bay window of 2:3:2 lights with
steeply-pitched tile roof. To right, former loggia, now
enclosed with original double doors from former setback entry,
and 4 unit screen of half-glazed panels. Above, a deep 4-light
gabled dormer. Tall brick stack to left of gable.
INTERIOR: original plan survives in almost undisturbed form,
with principal rooms containing built-in furniture. Main
reception room with gabled section with inglenook fireplace,
plank panelling and separate seat recess. Secondary room at
south end with small hearth, settle and cupboard. Kitchen and
pantry with dresser cupboards. Turned baluster stair with
broad moulded rail. Stair window and relocated double doors to
garden entrance with decorative leading and coloured glass.
First floor with hearths to main bedrooms, with shouldered
bolection mould surrounds, one with Delft tile insert. 6-panel
doors, moulded architraves, skirtings and picture rails
throughout. An unaltered example of a late Arts and Crafts


style house, which makes reference to local vernacular
traditions, and in which the greater part of the original
interior design, fittings and fixture survive.
The house is set within mature gardens of contemporary design.
(Felstead A: Directory of British Architects 1834-1900:
London: 1993-).


Listing NGR: TL3245711696

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Sources

Books and journals
Felstead, A, Directory of British Architects 1834-1900, (1993)

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