The Gardens House And Three Walled Gardens,Including Octagonal Green House is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. House, garden.
The Gardens House And Three Walled Gardens,Including Octagonal Green House
- WRENN ID
- empty-render-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- House, garden
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lemsford TL 21 SW HATFIELD MARFORD ROAD (north side)
5/177 'The Gardens': House and three walled gardens, including octagonal green house
GV II
House and adjoining walled gardens. Mid-late C18. Probably by James Paine for Sir Mathew Lamb. Red brick. House has slate roof with central chimney stack. 2 storeys with 3-sided E end. Recessed sash windows with gauged brick heads and 1st floor brick sill band. Flush panel double doors on N. Garden walls are 3-4 metres high and attached to W side of house. Shallow pyramid coping. 2 long rectangular gardens on E. Roughly square-plan garden on N with outbuildings attached to canted N walls. Segmental-headed double gate on W side flanked by large heraldic panel fragments with lion and dragon. In centre of N garden is an octagonal greenhouse of early C19. Red brick piers and lower walls. Cast iron roof structure and wooden glazing bars. Moulded wood cornice with dentil course to square vestibule on S side. Each face has 3 6-pane windows, the centre one a side-hung ventilator.
Listing NGR: TL2095713154
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