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Latitude: 51.7974 / 51°47'50"N
Longitude: 0.0796 / 0°4'46"E
OS Eastings: 543505
OS Northings: 213017
OS Grid: TL435130
Mapcode National: GBR LD8.8Z1
Mapcode Global: VHHM6.B2GY
Plus Code: 9F32Q3WH+XV
Entry Name: Keeper's Cottage in Home Wood Along Track 260 Metrs from Road
Listing Date: 19 September 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1101278
English Heritage Legacy ID: 159914
ID on this website: 101101278
Location: East Hertfordshire, CM20
County: Hertfordshire
District: East Hertfordshire
Civil Parish: Gilston
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: Gilston with Eastwick
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Cottage
TL 41 SW GILSTON GILSTON LANE
(west side)
2/40 Keeper's Cottage
in Home Wood along
- track 260 metres
from road
- II
House. '1851' on quatrefoil datestone on W gable. For John
Hodgson Esq of Gilston Park, probably designed by P C Hardwick
(signed drawing for kennels behind in HRO) having slate slabs and
cover rolls used to roof bay window also found on Cumberland
Lodge (1855) presumably by Hardwick, the architect for the main
house Gilston Park. A picturesque, one and a half storeys red
brick and slate Gothic keeper's house. L-shaped and facing W.
Low plinth. W end of W wing- has a semioctagonal single storey
stone bay window on a brick base and with 1- and 2-light
transomed wooden casement windows and steep polygonal roof of
large slate slabs with round-topped slate rolls at the angles, 2-
light casement window over with flat gauged brick arch and flush
stone sill. N side has 2 majestic tall projecting chimneys each
having 2 diagonal brick shafts with moulded caps. Simple
bargeboards with finial on W gable. Simpler E elevation with 2
casement windows on each floor and 4-panelled flush beaded door
under gabled timber porch with slate roof. Windows have flat
gauged brick arches and flush stone sills. Transomed windows on
Ground floor. A deliberately picturesque Gothic estate house,
one of the earliest built for John Hodgson Esq on the Gilston
Park Estate probably designed by P C Hardwick who was building
Gilston Park for him at the time.
Listing NGR: TL4350513017
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