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The Garden Cottage and Garden Walls at Coldharbour Wood

A Grade II Listed Building in Bengeo Rural, Hertfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8522 / 51°51'7"N

Longitude: -0.0436 / 0°2'37"W

OS Eastings: 534842

OS Northings: 218875

OS Grid: TL348188

Mapcode National: GBR KB0.V2X

Mapcode Global: VHGP9.6P9Z

Plus Code: 9C3XVX24+VH

Entry Name: The Garden Cottage and Garden Walls at Coldharbour Wood

Listing Date: 11 June 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1341435

English Heritage Legacy ID: 356109

ID on this website: 101341435

Location: East Hertfordshire, SG12

County: Hertfordshire

District: East Hertfordshire

Civil Parish: Bengeo Rural

Traditional County: Hertfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire

Church of England Parish: Bengeo Holy Trinity and St Leonard with Christ Church

Church of England Diocese: St.Albans

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Description


BENGEO RURAL MARSHALL'S LANE
TL 31 NW
(Southwest side)
Sacombe Green
4/4 The Garden Cottage
- and Garden Walls at
Coldharbour Wood
- II

Former kitchen garden wall. c.1785 for T. Caswall of Coldharbour (not
listed). Red brick with some stone dressings. About 140m x 75m, roughly
rectangular on plan with a section cut out to SW. About 3m to 4m high.
Corner piers, some with stone caps. Pilaster buttresses. Wall rounded
inwards at head to brick coping. Principal opening to SE retains one
stone blocked pier. Plank door to SW with projecting brick surround with
gauged brick flat arched head, stone impost blocks. Plank door to NW
with inner blocked round arched head. A section of original wall extends
into garden from NE side. Stock brick spur wall to SW. In SW inset of
wall is early C19 gardener's cottage. Ground floor white brick with a
red brick band to first floor stock brick. Slate roof. 2 storeys. 2
windows. Central entrance in later gabled porch. Flanking blocked round
headed openings, first floor openings empty. Extruded end stacks. 2 sash
windows to rear. 1 storey outbuildings to left, 2 bays of stock brick
with a door and a 9 pane sash with round heads. 3 bays of C18 red brick
with round headed openings, some round headed openings to rear. Interior
not inspected. Coldharbour House and this wall were built following
demolition of the early Sacombe House and its embattled garden wall
which was part of C. Bridgeman's laying out of the grounds c.1715. The
house was subsequently demolished following building of the present
Sacombe House (q.v., Sacombe Civil Parish) in 1802. (P. Willis,
Charles Bridgeman, 1977: RCHM Typescript).


Listing NGR: TL3484218875

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