Hertford Lodge

LITTLE BERKHAMSTED BEDWELL AVENUE TL 20 NE (East side) Howe Green 7/81 Hertford Lodge - II

Lodge to Bedwell Park (see list for Essendon Civil Parish, Welwyn- Hatfield District). 1860-1 by W.G. Habershon for Sir C.E. Eardley, Bart. Red brick with black brick diapering and sham timber framing, stone dressings. Tiled roof. Polychrome Gothic Revival Style. T-shape on plan. 2 storeys. 2 bay front. Ground floor: plinth, brick diapering, bay window projections with 4 light chamfered mullion and transom casements, most panes leaded. To centre a small vertical light. First floor all projects to same plane as ground floor bay windows on shaped timber brackets, cross braced sham timber framing, quatrefoils below. 2 light casements in gabled semi-dormers with cusped and wavy bargeboards. Right return: ground floor 6 light mullion and transom window, projecting first floor as at front, finial to bargeboarded gable. Towards rear is entrance bay under a lower smaller gable, half glazed doors with timber panels above, cusped bargeboard over 2 lights in small gable. Extending to rear is a lower wing with a projecting rectangular bay on right return with a 6 light stone mullion and transom window. 4 light window to rear gable end, projecting first floor on brackets, bargeboards to half hipped roof. Left gable end from front has projecting first floor as at front wih bargeboarded, finialed gable. 1 storey C20 flat roofed addition not of special interest. Interior not inspected. (M Girouard, The Victorian Country House).

Listing NGR: TL2823109787