SPIRIT BRIDGE IN JAPANESE GARDEN AT GARDEN HOUSE 20 METERS TO SOUTH-EAST OF HOUSE

SPIRIT BRIDGE IN JAPANESE GARDEN AT GARDEN HOUSE 20 METERS TO SOUTH-EAST OF HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1295422
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: SPIRIT BRIDGE IN JAPANESE GARDEN AT GARDEN HOUSE 20 METERS TO SOUTH-EAST OF HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SPIRIT BRIDGE IN JAPANESE GARDEN AT GARDEN HOUSE 20 METERS TO SOUTH-EAST OF HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1295422
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: SPIRIT BRIDGE IN JAPANESE GARDEN AT GARDEN HOUSE 20 METERS TO SOUTH-EAST OF HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SPIRIT BRIDGE IN JAPANESE GARDEN AT GARDEN HOUSE 20 METERS TO SOUTH-EAST OF HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: SPIRIT BRIDGE IN JAPANESE GARDEN AT GARDEN HOUSE 20 METERS TO SOUTH-EAST OF HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Cottered
National Grid Reference:: TL 31643 29159

Details

TL 3129 COTTERED CHURCH LANE (west side)

5/31 Spirit Bridge in Japanese Garden at Garden House - 20m to SE of house

GV II

Bridge. 1912 built by Enomoto in Japan for Herbert Goode (1865- 1937) a wealthy glass and china merchant who built the Japanese Garden in 1905-26. Timber, partly painted. An arched narrow wooden bridge with 4-bay twin-rail balustrades, partly infilled. The 4 main posts on each side have onion shaped finials. It crosses the narrow part of the Fox Lake and is modelled on the sacred bridge at Nikko in Japan called SHIN-KYO (Spirit Bridge). (Japanese Garden (1933) 10).

Listing NGR: TL3164329159

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 159863
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Japanese Garden, (1933), 10
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 21 Hertfordshire,

Legal

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