LODGE AND ATTACHED GATES AND SCREEN WALLS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269023
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: LODGE AND ATTACHED GATES AND SCREEN WALLS
Statutory Address:: LODGE AND ATTACHED GATES AND SCREEN WALLS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269023
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: LODGE AND ATTACHED GATES AND SCREEN WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: LODGE AND ATTACHED GATES AND SCREEN WALLS
Statutory Address 2:: LODGE AND ATTACHED GATES AND SCREEN WALLS, LONDON ROAD

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

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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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Statutory Address:: LODGE AND ATTACHED GATES AND SCREEN WALLS
Statutory Address:: LODGE AND ATTACHED GATES AND SCREEN WALLS, LONDON ROAD

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County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hertford
National Grid Reference:: TL 33612 12271

Details

HERTFORD

TL3312SE BALLS PARK 817-1/9/269 (South side) Lodge and attached gates and screen walls

GV II

Includes: Lodge and attached gates and screen walls LONDON ROAD. Gate lodge and attached gates and screen walls. Mid C19. Red brick, Flemish bond, with yellow brick dressings. Old tiled roof, with fishscale tiles over front block. Central 4 flue stack, red brick, with octagonal shafts over square base, 2 shafted stack of simpler form to rear outshut. EXTERIOR: 3-bay front, 1 storey and attics. Attic dormers have wood casements with divided glazing recessed under yellow brick rubbed flat arches, yellow jambs and moulded brick corbelled kneelers to parapet, moulded corbelled courses below, central gable has yellow brick quoins, and central blind recessed panel, with chamfered jambs, quoins and rubbed flat arch. Ground floor has canted wood mullion and transom casement bays left and right, with brick bases and fishscale single-light casements in flanks, and door with upper 6-panel glazed panel, and Tudor arch. Stone-coped Jacobean style Dutch gables at ends and centre and stone-coped attic dormers left and right. North and south elevations have 2-light mullion and transom casements first and ground floors, with elaborate Dutch gables. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached gates and screen walls to drive from London Road of red brick with stone copings; the piers in yellow brick with red quoins, stone caps and ball finials. Pair of main gates, with uprights with pierced spear-heads, with boxed cast-iron piers with lion heads, winged sphinxes, axes and fasces, all set back within opening through screen wall. Pedestrian gates in the flanks between the iron and brick piers. Curved screen walls either side of brick piers with ramped copings, divided into panels by buttresses, with corbelled zig-zag courses below copings.

Listing NGR: TL3361212271

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Legacy System number:: 461227
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.