Dam And Cascade To Lake At Gilston Park 500 Metres South East Of House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Garden feature.

Dam And Cascade To Lake At Gilston Park 500 Metres South East Of House

WRENN ID
tenth-buttress-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Country
England
Type
Garden feature
Source
Historic England listing

Description

TL 4412 GILSTON GILSTON LANE (west side)

9/6 Dam and Cascade to lake at Gilston Park 500 - metres SE of house

  • II

Dam and cascade. About 1851 remodelling of dam of an early C19 ornamental lake, by P C Hardwick for John Hodgson Esq, in the park of Gilston Park. Overflow in centre now in the form of a naturalistic waterfall or cascade over a high cliff of artificial stone, similar to the grotto in the conservatory at Gilston Park added in 1887 by A W Blomfield for E S Bowlby Esq. The dam was used to drive an electric turbine c1902, the foundations of which are to the S of the cascade. An historic garden feature and an early use of artificial stonework. Adaptation for generating electricity in 1902 of technological interest.

Listing NGR: TL4452312659

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