Wych Elms And Attached Wall, Goldings Park

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: TL3115814206