Description

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ST MICHAEL

TL11SW HARPENDEN ROAD, Childwick
270-1/5/10007 (West side)
Gate Lodge No.1, Childwick Bury Stud

GV II

One of a pair of matching gate lodges flanking the Entrance
Gates [qv] to Childwick Bury Stud from Harpenden Road: No.1 on
south side of gateway. Circa 1888. Possibly by Col.R.W.Edis
FRIBA, in a Domestic Revival style, for Sir John Blundell
Maple M.P., founder of the stud. Brick with dressed stone and
timber details, timber framed gables with roughcast panels;
plain tile roofs with wide eaves and gables with widely
projecting verges with barge boards; a central, brick,
cruciform ridge stack with brick cornice and ceramic chimney
pots.
Plan: designed for picturesque effect; paralel with the
entrance drive an end-gabled block with half-hipped lean-to
against the east gable facing towards the road, in the centre
of the entrance front facing the drive a lower wing with a
central cross gable flanked by catslides; on each side of the
wing a recessed entrance porch with flanking screen wall, at
rear a central, cross-gabled wing.
Exterior: single storey; brick offset plinth; at each end of
the front both recessed entrance porches have flanking screen
walls of brick to half height and timber posts above
supporting roof, over the entry to each porch a shallow,
segmental, arched timber brace; on the front in the centre of
the wing a canted oriel casement window, of four lights with
glazing bars, is supported on a pair of shaped timber
brackets, above the oriel a timber framed infill within the
apex of the cross-gable verges, the feet of the gable verges,
on either side of the oriel, supported on a shaped timber
brackets; in the west end wall a four-light stone framed and
mullioned casement window with glazing bars, and, with similar
details, in the east gable-end wall a three-light casement and
in the gable-end wall of the rear cross wing rear a four-light
casement.
Interior: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL1413111478

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26544925

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