Walls to walled gardens south-east of Balls Park Mansion

Walls to walled gardens south-east of Balls Park Mansion, Balls Park

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269020
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: Walls to walled gardens south-east of Balls Park Mansion
Statutory Address:: Walls to walled gardens south-east of Balls Park Mansion, Balls Park

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269020
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: Walls to walled gardens south-east of Balls Park Mansion
Statutory Address 1:: Walls to walled gardens south-east of Balls Park Mansion, Balls Park

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Walls to walled gardens south-east of 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:: TL3363911904

Details

TL3311NE 817-1/9/263 HERTFORD BALLS PARK Walls to walled gardens south-east of Balls Park Mansion (Formerly Listed as: Kitchen Garden Walls, Balls Park)

12/04/73 GV II Two walled gardens, previously listed as kitchen garden walls. Early C18, with C19 and C20 alterations and repairs. Red brick laid to Flemish bond, with Portland stone copings and finials to piers.

Two square enclosures. Piers have moulded stone copings with ogee caps and ball finials, with pair of wrought-iron C19 scrollwork gates in west wall of south garden; C19 section of lowered wall in centre of north side of north garden with ramped brick coping, brick piers with stone caps and carved urns on pedestals, and timber battened gatesith carved scroll tops. C18 gardener's cottage (qv) straddles north east run of east wall of north garden.

South garden has arched openings with stone impost blocks, double header red brick arches, and stone keyblocks inscribed 'Nan's Garden'. Battened oak doors with wrought-iron strap hinges, with timber pergolas supported on brick piers with stone caps inside each doorway. HISTORICAL NOTE: the gardens at Balls Park were restored at the turn of the century by Sir George Faudel-Phillips who acquired the property in 1901, but had leased it since the 1880s. Listing NGR: TL3363911904

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Legacy System number:: 461224
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Country Life' in Country Life, (1912), 578-587

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.