Japanese House In Japanese Garden At Garden House 30 Meters To South-South-West Of House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. House.
Japanese House In Japanese Garden At Garden House 30 Meters To South-South-West Of House
- WRENN ID
- tired-stone-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TL 3129 COTTERED CHURCH LANE (west side)
5/28 Japanese House in Japanese Garden at Garden - House 30m to SSW of house
GV II
Japanese House. Early C20 or earlier, probably made in Japan, erected here between 1905 and 1926 for Herbert Goode (1865-1937) a wealthy glass and china merchant who began the Japanese Garden in 1905. Timber frame with wooden cladding and hipped shingle roof. A 2 storeys rectangular building with projecting verandah- as at 2 levels with separate roofs and small gabled porch. Of the type named SEI-SHIN-TE (the Pure Heart) used principally as a retreat from a main house. Normally placed outside a garden, but this is in the garden and is more ornamental for this reason. Paper sliding screens on E replaced by glass. (Japanese Garden (1933) 20-1).
Listing NGR: TL3161929136
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