Wych Elms and Attached Wall, Goldings Park Hertford, England
Listed Building Data
Wych Elms and Attached Wall, Goldings Park 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1268821
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 9 September 1996
- Name
- WYCH ELMS AND ATTACHED WALL, GOLDINGS PARK
- Location
- WYCH ELMS AND ATTACHED WALL, GOLDINGS PARK, NORTH ROAD
- Parish
- Hertford
- District
- East Hertfordshire
- County
- Hertfordshire
- Grid Reference
- TL 31100 14207
- Easting
- 531100.0000
- Northing
- 214207.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
HERTFORD
TL3114SW NORTH ROAD, Goldings 817-1/5/308 (West side) Wych Elms and attached wall, Goldings Park
GV II
Estate gardener's cottage. 1912-3. Architect HS Goodhart-Rendel. Red brick, Flemish bond, tilehanging, orange sandfaced clay tiled roof. Coupled square shafted chimneystacks backing formerly balustraded, lead flat roof above west elevation. Vernacular Revival style. Central entry double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attics, and 2 storey. East elevation has 2 canted bay windows over brick bases, with triple sash windows, 8:16:8 panes, beneath soffit of overhanging eaves. Central doorway with 6-panel semicircular headed door, upper 2 glazed, red rubbed brick arch, flanking rusticated quoin pilasters, and quoins at corners. Return elevations have tilehung asymmetrical gables. Roof sweeps down to ground-floor window heads on east elevation. Large 6-light wood mullion and transom window on first floor, above 2 narrow 8 pane flush-set sash windows on ground floor. Westward 2-storey flat-roofed projection straddles garden wall and faces towards the mansion. West elevation has 2 canted brick bay windows, with projecting plate band at first-floor level, first-floor window with brick mullions and tile-creased transoms, original leaded lights in metal casements now replaced with plain glass. Corbelled cornice bands above and blocking course, formerly with turned wood balustrade. Rusticated quoins left and right frame central arched recess, which was designed as a garden shelter. Roof with central gabled casement dormer on west. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the high red brick wall, Flemish bond, dates from C18 and was part of the gardens of the earlier Goldings mansion, demolished c1875. HISTORICAL NOTE: HS Goodhart Rendel (1887-1959) was an original idiosyncratic architect, whose work spanned the transition from the Arts and Crafts Movement to Modernism. Wych Elms was an early work, influenced by Lutyens. (Weaver L: Country Life Book of Cottages: London: 1913-: 63-8).
Listing NGR: TL3110014207
