The Garden Cottage approximately 130 metres south west of Balls Park Mansion
The Garden Cottage approximately 130 metres south west of Balls Park Mansion, Ball Park
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269019
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Garden Cottage approximately 130 metres south west of Balls Park Mansion
- Statutory Address:
- The Garden Cottage approximately 130 metres south west of Balls Park Mansion, Ball Park
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269019
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Garden Cottage approximately 130 metres south west of Balls Park Mansion
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Garden Cottage approximately 130 metres south west of Balls Park Mansion, Ball 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:
- The Garden Cottage approximately 130 metres south west of Balls Park Mansion, Ball 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 33461 11857
Details
TL3311NW
817-1/9/267
HERTFORD
BALLS PARK
The Garden Cottage approximately 130 metres south west of Balls Park Mansion
GV
II
House, now student residence. C18, altered and extended C19 and early C20. Red brick, English and Flemish bond, yellow brick porch on south, pebbledashed east wing. Old tiled roofs, with wave-scalloped barge boards, east and west, moulded oak barge board on north wing, yellow brick chimneys on ridge, one with four, one with two octagonal brick shafts with tall tapered orange pots. Lower red brick chimney with corbelled cap and oversailing course, and two tapered pots, on north wing.
EXTERIOR: two storeys. The nucleus of the building is a three bay cottage with C18 brickwork and steeply pitched roof, with two small casement windows on first floor, and mullion and transom casements on ground floor, with early C20 projecting gable porch in centre. At right (east) a single-storey projection, reworked in cottage ornee style early/mid C19, with gabled loggia on east, with four oak columns, and arcade with fretted fascia, plastered spandrel above two recessed ground floor windows, both two-light casements, with lattice glazing and triangular Gothick heads.
North wing, early C20, gabled, with exposed oak studwork on first floor and in gable, embattled tie beam, infill herringbone brick nogging, oak fascia to bressumer, jettied over brick ground floor. Two-light wood casement with divided glazing, moulded architrave surround and moulded sill, on first floor, and Yorkshire sash window on ground floor. First floor to west elevation has two mullion and transom windows, with four-light square opening casements, with lattice glazing in large square panes; ground floor has similar three-light window at right, and C20 projecting flat-roofed bay at left.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
This building appears to have been of utilitarian origin, but altered and partly disguised as an eye catcher in early/mid C19, and again early C20, when the nearby sunken garden (qv) was constructed.
Listing NGR: TL3346111857
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461223
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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