17-43, Ridge Avenue Letchworth Garden City, England
Listed Building Data
17-43, Ridge Avenue has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1174624
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 7 September 1979
- Name
- 17-43, RIDGE AVENUE
- Location
- 17-43, RIDGE AVENUE
- Parish
- Letchworth Garden City
- District
- North Hertfordshire
- County
- Hertfordshire
- Grid Reference
- TL 22301 32683
- Easting
- 522301.0000
- Northing
- 232683.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
RIDGE AVENUE 1. 5255 Nos 17 to 43 (odd) TL 2232 9/96, 97, 98 and 99 II GV 2. 1912 by Bennett and Bidwell. Group of 4 terraces for workmen on standard plans developed for the Howard Cottage Society. Splayed outbuildings link plans and 59 with Nos 24 to 30 (even), and Nos 21 to 29 (odd) Hillshott (qv). One and a half storeys. One window each. Symmetrical facades variegated by juxtaposition of large and small gabled dormers. Tiled roofs with brown brick ridge stacks. Roughcast walls. Small dormers with weather-boarded gables. Two and three light casement windows with glazing bars and tile labels. Some large gables with labels extended as strings. Ground floor with 4-light bay windows with cornices. Recessed, segmental-arched doorways with tile labels and boarded doors. One storey linking ranges with gabled entrances flanked by segmental headed 3-light windows. Original colour scheme of cream walls and windows, and green doors, window cills and pipework retained. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: TL2230132683
