Description

HERTFORD

TL3312SE BALLS PARK
817-1/9/269 (South side)
Lodge and attached gates and screen
walls

GV II

Includes: Lodge and attached gates and screen walls LONDON
ROAD.
Gate lodge and attached gates and screen walls. Mid C19. Red
brick, Flemish bond, with yellow brick dressings. Old tiled
roof, with fishscale tiles over front block. Central 4 flue
stack, red brick, with octagonal shafts over square base, 2
shafted stack of simpler form to rear outshut.
EXTERIOR: 3-bay front, 1 storey and attics. Attic dormers have
wood casements with divided glazing recessed under yellow
brick rubbed flat arches, yellow jambs and moulded brick
corbelled kneelers to parapet, moulded corbelled courses
below, central gable has yellow brick quoins, and central
blind recessed panel, with chamfered jambs, quoins and rubbed
flat arch. Ground floor has canted wood mullion and transom
casement bays left and right, with brick bases and fishscale
single-light casements in flanks, and door with upper 6-panel
glazed panel, and Tudor arch. Stone-coped Jacobean style Dutch
gables at ends and centre and stone-coped attic dormers left
and right.
North and south elevations have 2-light mullion and transom
casements first and ground floors, with elaborate Dutch
gables.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached gates and screen walls to drive
from London Road of red brick with stone copings; the piers in
yellow brick with red quoins, stone caps and ball finials.
Pair of main gates, with uprights with pierced spear-heads,
with boxed cast-iron piers with lion heads, winged sphinxes,
axes and fasces, all set back within opening through screen
wall. Pedestrian gates in the flanks between the iron and
brick piers. Curved screen walls either side of brick piers
with ramped copings, divided into panels by buttresses, with
corbelled zig-zag courses below copings.

Listing NGR: TL3361212271

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26682838

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