Description

The following buildings shall be added to the list:-

HARPENDEN

TL11SW AYRES END LANE
270-1/5/10005 (North side)
Nos.3 AND 4

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, tile hanging to the
front on the first floor, and applied timber framing with
roughcast panels in the front gables; roof of plain tiles with
two bands of of fish scale tiles on each slope, gables with
deep verges and barge boards, a central ridge stack with brick
dentil cornice and a similar stack at each end, all with
ceramic 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 with a raised band at
first floor level; on the ground floor in the front gable wall
of each cross wing an entrance doorway with vertical boarded
door: to right in the left hand wing and to left in the 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 shallow, segmental, brick-arched head, and in the
central range two three-light casements 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 in the central range two smaller
three-light casements with similar details; in the gables of
the cross wings curved braces to the posts in the two central
panels of the applied timber framing. In rear elevation one
and two-light casements with diamond pane glazing similar to
front. The applied timber framing, casement frames and
projecting window sills all painted white.
Interiors: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL1447811656

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26544924

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House