Description

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ST MICHAEL

TL11SW HARPENDEN ROAD, Childwick
2 70-1/5/10008 (West side)
Gate Lodge No.2, Childwick Bury Stud

GV II

One of a pair of matching lodges flanking the Entrance Gates
[qv] to Childwick Bury Stud from Harpenden Road: No. 2 On the
north side of the 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 widely projecting
verges with bargeboards; a central, brick, cruciform ridge
stack with brick cornice and ceramic pots.
Plan: designed for pictuesque effect; parallel to the entrance
drive an end-gabled block extended by a half-hipped lean-to
against the east gable facing 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 a 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 screen walls of
brick to half height and timber posts above supprting 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, timber 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 also supported on
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 a four-light casement.
Interior: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL1411511500

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26544926

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