Goldings Lodge

HERTFORD

TL3114SW NORTH ROAD, Goldings 817-1/5/300 (West side) Goldings Lodge

II

Lodge. 1870. Architect George Devey. Red brick, Flemish bond, with occasional diaper patterns in blue headers, half timbered walls with roughcast plaster, complex gabled and hipped old tiled roofs (originally thatched), tall Tudor style brick shafted chimneys, with oversailing caps. Free Tudor style. Irregular plan. EXTERIOR: single storey. Main elevation faces drive, at left a projecting gable with half timber studwork and colourwashed roughcast panels over brick base. To centre a mullion and transom bay window with a moulded cornice and gabled roof, with a plain roughcast plaster spandrel. Further to right a porch recessed beneath the bonnet-hipped end of the main roof which has an upstand tilehung gablet, diaper pattern in blue headers on recessed red brick wall. At far right a projection which forms a gabled wing facing the road, with ornamental studwork carried on brackets above a projecting 3-light oriel bay with concave curved plaster spandrel. Further northward a wing projecting at right angles. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Robert Smith inherited the Goldings estate in 1861, demolished the old mansion, which dated from C17, and diverted and reconstructed the nearby Watton Turnpike, and commissioned a new mansion, The Goldings (qv), from George Devey, built 1871-7. (Allibone J: George Devey Architect 1820-1886: Cambridge: 1991-: 91-5, 164; Dixon R: Victorian Architecture: London: 1978-: 50-2, 257; Girouard M: The Victorian Country House: New Haven and London: 1979-: 84-5, 438.).

Listing NGR: TL3146414024