Former north west service and kitchen wing to Balls Park Mansion
Former north west service and kitchen wing to Balls Park Mansion, Balls Park
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269018
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Former north west service and kitchen wing to Balls Park Mansion
- Statutory Address:
- Former north west service and kitchen wing to Balls Park Mansion, Balls Park
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269018
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Former north west service and kitchen wing to Balls Park Mansion
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former north west service and kitchen wing to Balls Park Mansion, Balls Park
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 north west service and kitchen wing to Balls Park Mansion, Balls Park
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 33507 11996
Details
TL3311NE
817-1/9/264
HERTFORD
BALLS PARK
Former north west service and kitchen wing to Balls Park Mansion
GV
II
Service wing, converted to kitchens and staff bedrooms, now workshops with study bedrooms above. C18, altered early C20. Plum red brick laid to Flemish bond with overburnt headers and orange dressings, Welsh slated hipped gambrel roof withmoulded wooden eaves cornice.
EXTERIOR: two storeys and attics, eight bay main facades. Two large 18-pane sashes left and right, with orange quoins, and orange rubbed brick flat arches. The four centre bays have altered openings with C20 small-paned wood casement windows to ground and first floors, with herringbone brick nogging spandrels. C20 double leaf doors third bay from left. Six-box sash dormers, with segmental tops and red brick chimneys with orange pots. South elevation linked to north west wing of house on ground floor at right. Short flank elevation four bay, altered.
INTERIOR: newel stair with close string, column and vase balusters and moulded handrail, attics with C18 four-panel doors, pegged king-post roof trusses.
Listing NGR: TL3350711996
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461222
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1902), 412-414
Page, F M, History of Hertford, (1993), 162,171-3
Page, F M, History of Hertford, (1993), 21 30 130
Sangster, P E, History of Balls Park, ()
Smith, J T, English Houses 1200-1800 The Hertfordshire Evidence, (1992), 122 128
Smith, J T, Hertfordshire Houses Selective Inventory, (1993), 79-81
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 85-87
Turnor, L, History of Hertford, (1830), 366-368
Turnor, L, History of Hertford, (1830), 163-164
Chauncy, H, The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire, (1826), 520-521
Country Life in Country Life, (1912), 579-87
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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