Ferrum House With Garage, Terrace and Pool
FERRUM HOUSE WITH GARAGE, TERRACE AND POOL, GRANGE COURT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375674
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Ferrum House With Garage, Terrace and Pool
- Statutory Address:
- FERRUM HOUSE WITH GARAGE, TERRACE AND POOL, GRANGE COURT ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375674
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Ferrum House With Garage, Terrace and Pool
- Statutory Address 1:
- FERRUM HOUSE WITH GARAGE, TERRACE AND POOL, GRANGE COURT 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:
- FERRUM HOUSE WITH GARAGE, TERRACE AND POOL, GRANGE COURT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harpenden Town
- National Grid Reference:
- TL1423312512
Details
TL 11 SW
270/11/10020
HARPENDEN
GRANGE COURT ROAD
(South side)
Ferrum House, with garage, Terrace and pool
II
Private house. 1963 (principal rectangular section), with later extension, by John S Bonnington for himself. Steel-framed upper storey resting on light yellow brick cross walls extending into garden. Flat roof. Largely rectangular building, with open plan, influenced by Mies van der Rohe. Entrance under overhanging upper storey with columbian pine boarded soffit. Windows of aluminium and double glazed, to full storey-height. First floor partly infilled with vertical cedar boarding. Three bays of tripartite glazing to garden front. Attached garage part of composition.
Interior features Swedish white glass mosaic floors throughout. Hardwood sliding doors and internal partitions. Open stair with timber treads and steel string and handrail, from hall to dining area, which connects to kitchen and living room. Sitka spruce boarded ceilings throughout together with certain internal partitions. Teak kitchen wall-to-wall counter-top and sink unit clear of floor and windows with white laminated cupboards below. Hi-fi recess in living room with built-in speakers in panelling. Fitted storage cupboards and wardrobes in bedrooms and ground floor passages. Portland stone paved terrace surrounding house, extending to garden pool.
One of the first examples of a steel-framed house in England. A fine and disciplined example with a rigorous open plan, surviving in immaculate condition.
SOURCES:
Architectural Design (May 1965) p257-8
Architects' Hournal (2nd September 1970)
Hertfordshire Association of Architects; Architecture in Hertfordshire 1929-1979 (1979)
Listing NGR: TL1423312512
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469650
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hertfordshire Association of Architects in Architecture in Hertfordshire 1929-1979, (1979)
Architects Journal in 2 September, (1970)
Architectural Design in May, (1965), 257-8
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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