Goddards
GODDARDS, HUNSDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347681
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Goddards
- Statutory Address:
- GODDARDS, HUNSDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347681
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Goddards
- Statutory Address 1:
- GODDARDS, HUNSDON ROAD
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:
- GODDARDS, HUNSDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Widford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 41949 15601
Details
TL 4115 WIDFORD HUNSDON ROAD (west side) Widford village
5/17 Goddards
24.1.67
GV II
House. 1725-50 period with 1899 NE wing and light 1 storey extension to S in 1960 behind a screen wall (RCHM Typescript). Red brick with blue headers and lighter red dressings in older part. Parts of service wing to N timberframed and roughcast at rear. Plum brick facing to rear. Old red tile roof, half hipped covers the square older block in one span. Red tiled mansard roof to 1899 extension. The main house has a 4 room double pile plan with central narrow entrance hall and wider stair hall to rear. 2 storey and attic it has a symmetrical 5 window front with moulded brick floor band, segmental rubbed brick arches and boxed eaves. Sash windows in heavily moulded flush frames, lacking glazing bars. Old rainwater pipes of box section. Central 6-panel raised and fielded door with top panels glazed. Moulded doorcase with square open porch, of slender Tuscan columns on high pedestals, with full entablature and trianguar pediment. 2 storeys, 2 windows 1899 extension with matching windows and a dormer. Central rear doorway has a 6-panel flush beaded door and a fine early C18 moulded flat hood breaking forward over a richly carved console brackets. The house has gable chimneys and good panelled interiors, with moulded cornices and dado rail on the Ground Floor. The name associated with the site refers to William Goddard mentioned in 1294. In the early C19 it was the Young Gentlewomen's Academy run by Elizabeth and Jane Norris visited frequently by Charles Lamb and described by Mary Lamb in Mrs Leicesters School (HLHS (1979) 55). A contemporary wrote of the late C19 owner Charles Nelson Treen that he "replaced the dear old small glazed windows with vulgar plate glass" (ibid 48). An historic early C18 brick house with literary associations. Part of a varied group in this part of the Conservation Area.
Listing NGR: TL4194915601
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160026
- 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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