Description

LITTLE BERKHAMSTED BEDWELL AVENUE
TL 20 NE
(East side)
Howe Green
7/81 Hertford Lodge
- II

Lodge to Bedwell Park (see list for Essendon Civil Parish, Welwyn-
Hatfield District). 1860-1 by W.G. Habershon for Sir C.E. Eardley,
Bart. Red brick with black brick diapering and sham timber framing,
stone dressings. Tiled roof. Polychrome Gothic Revival Style. T-shape on
plan. 2 storeys. 2 bay front. Ground floor: plinth, brick diapering,
bay window projections with 4 light chamfered mullion and transom
casements, most panes leaded. To centre a small vertical light. First
floor all projects to same plane as ground floor bay windows on shaped
timber brackets, cross braced sham timber framing, quatrefoils below. 2
light casements in gabled semi-dormers with cusped and wavy bargeboards.
Right return: ground floor 6 light mullion and transom window, projecting
first floor as at front, finial to bargeboarded gable. Towards rear is
entrance bay under a lower smaller gable, half glazed doors with timber
panels above, cusped bargeboard over 2 lights in small gable. Extending
to rear is a lower wing with a projecting rectangular bay on right
return with a 6 light stone mullion and transom window. 4 light window
to rear gable end, projecting first floor on brackets, bargeboards to
half hipped roof. Left gable end from front has projecting first floor
as at front wih bargeboarded, finialed gable. 1 storey C20 flat roofed
addition not of special interest. Interior not inspected. (M Girouard,
The Victorian Country House).

Listing NGR: TL2823109787

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26381516

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)