Model Cottages

TL 00 SE ABBOTS LANGLEY TIBBS HILL ROAD (East side) Abbots Langley

3/78 Nos. 84, 86 and 88 16/9/85 (Model Cottages)

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Formerly 4 flats, now 3. 1856 altered and extended. Designed by H. Roberts at Prince Albert's request for the Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes. Plum brick with white brick dressings. Slate roof. 2 storeys. 4 window front. Ends project slightly, ground floor right original 3 light timber casement in a reveal, otherwise C20 replacements in outer bays. To centre is a tall recess with a renewed head. Entrances in inner return walls, that to right with original Gothic door. Ground floor was originally three 2 light casements, that to right is now an entrance. First floor two 2 light original case- ments in reveals, all openings have white brick surrounds and slightly cambered gauged brick heads. White brick quoins. Triangulated string courses over ground floor, at first floor sill level and below parapet which is stepped up over outer bays with central rendered medallions and finials, double step up to centre. End stacks with quadruple shafts. Right end roughcast. Three gables to rear: 2 original tall casements to rear right. Later gabled wings extend to rear centre and left. Quadruple stack to rear centre. Interior not inspected. The first such Model Cottage was exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851, conceived as a model for larger blocks of flats. (Pevsner 1977: J.S. Curl, The Life and Work of Henry Roberts, 1983).

Listing NGR: TL0983301920