Ashridge Cottages
ASHRIDGE COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389396
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Ashridge Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- ASHRIDGE COTTAGES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389396
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Ashridge Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHRIDGE COTTAGES
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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:
- ASHRIDGE COTTAGES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Gaddesden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 00196 12133
Details
LITTLE GADDESDEN
1777/0/10007 Ashridge Cottages
22-AUG-01
II
Eight estate cottages for Ashridge (q.v.). 1928-29. Clough Williams-Ellis for Rt. Hon. J.C.C. Davidson, M.P. Rendered brick walls with pantile pitched roofs hipped to ends, multi-pane sash windows, brick chimneys. Cottages arranged in a wide courtyard with 2 set forward, 4 set back and 2 set forward.
PLAN: One range of four attached cottages with a detached block of two cottages set forward at each end forming a wide courtyard with arched through-passage to rear at centre of the rear range. These four cottages have three-part facades with central entrance. The separate two end blocks consist each of two cottages, one addressing the street with a similar three-part elevation, and the other turned 90 degrees and placed slightly projecting to the street with the entrance facing to the outside.
ELEVATION: Symmetrical three-bay facades to each of the four attached cottages with 6/9 sashes to ground floor and three, 6/6 sashes to first floor. Board shutters survive to central first floor window of one unit. Central doors with cantilevered flat-roof porches to each cottage. Shared brick chimneys between cottages. Rear elevation of this range has three, 3/6 sashes to centre two cottages, one 6/6 to each end cottage. The set-forward blocks of two units consist of the same elevations but the short end of the outside units addressing the street with ground floor 6/9 sash and shallow semi-circular arch with flanking shutters. Round plaques outlined in black throughout scheme: 'JCCD' to front left cottage (side wall to street), 'Ashridge Cottages 1929' to centre of rear range over the arched through-passage, and blank to the rear over arched through-passage. End wall of the end unit has a wide chimney to centre of hipped roof above a window at ground floor.
INTERIOR: Interior not inspected.
HISTORY: Built as estate housing to Ashridge.
SOURCES: Richard Haslam, Clough Williams-Ellis. RIBA Drawings Monography No. 2. London: Academy Editions, 1996.
Listing NGR: TL0019612133
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488054
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Haslam, R, RIBA Drawings Monography in Clough Williams-Ellis, Vol. 2, (1996)
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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