Description

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HARPENDEN

TL11SW AYRES END LANE
270-1/5/10004 (North side)
Nos.l AND 2

GV II

One of two pairs of semi-detached cottages. Formerly estate
cottages built for the Childwick Bury Stud estate. Circa 1890.
In a Domestic Revival style, possibly by Col.R.W.Edis FRIBA,
for Sir John Blundell Maple M.P., founder of the stud.
Red brick with brighter red brick details, some applied timber
framing with roughcast panels on first floor and in front
gables, roof of plain tiles with two bands of fish scale tiles
on each slope, gables with deep verges and barge boards, a
central, brick ridge stack with brick dentil cornice and
ceramic chimney pots.
Plan: mirror image cottages within a central lateral range
and, at each end of the range, a cross wing projecting to
front and rear.
Exterior: two storeys; symmetrical front; on the front a
raised band at first floor level, quoining in bright red
brick, and on the first floor of the central range vertical
boards framing roughcast panels; on the ground floor in the
front gable wall of each cross wing an entrance doorway with
vertical boarded door: to right in left hand wing and to left
in right hand wing, each within a porch with a lean-to, tiled
roof supported on two timber posts; flanking each doorway a
four-light metal casement window with glazing bars [3x4 panes
in each light] with gothic heads to the top row of panes, in
opening with a shallow, segmental, brick arched head, and in
the central range two three-light casement windows with
similar details; on the first floor, in the gable end wall of
each cross wing, a three-light casement window with small
diamond panes set in metal glazing bars, and on the central
range two smaller three-light casements with similar details;
in the gables of the cross wings curved braces in the two
central panels of the applied framing. Rear elevation has at
rear one and two-light casements with diamond pane glazing
similar to front. The applied timber framing, the casement
frames and projecting window sills are all painted white.
Interior: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL1444811640

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26544923

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)