Lodge And Attached Gates And Screen Walls

HERTFORD

TL3312SE BALLS PARK 817-1/9/269 (South side) Lodge and attached gates and screen walls

GV II

Includes: Lodge and attached gates and screen walls LONDON ROAD. Gate lodge and attached gates and screen walls. Mid C19. Red brick, Flemish bond, with yellow brick dressings. Old tiled roof, with fishscale tiles over front block. Central 4 flue stack, red brick, with octagonal shafts over square base, 2 shafted stack of simpler form to rear outshut. EXTERIOR: 3-bay front, 1 storey and attics. Attic dormers have wood casements with divided glazing recessed under yellow brick rubbed flat arches, yellow jambs and moulded brick corbelled kneelers to parapet, moulded corbelled courses below, central gable has yellow brick quoins, and central blind recessed panel, with chamfered jambs, quoins and rubbed flat arch. Ground floor has canted wood mullion and transom casement bays left and right, with brick bases and fishscale single-light casements in flanks, and door with upper 6-panel glazed panel, and Tudor arch. Stone-coped Jacobean style Dutch gables at ends and centre and stone-coped attic dormers left and right. North and south elevations have 2-light mullion and transom casements first and ground floors, with elaborate Dutch gables. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached gates and screen walls to drive from London Road of red brick with stone copings; the piers in yellow brick with red quoins, stone caps and ball finials. Pair of main gates, with uprights with pierced spear-heads, with boxed cast-iron piers with lion heads, winged sphinxes, axes and fasces, all set back within opening through screen wall. Pedestrian gates in the flanks between the iron and brick piers. Curved screen walls either side of brick piers with ramped copings, divided into panels by buttresses, with corbelled zig-zag courses below copings.

Listing NGR: TL3361212271