Description

HERTFORD

TL3114SW NORTH ROAD, Goldings
817-1/5/304 (West side)
Former stables to Goldings

GV II

Stables, now local authority offices and maintenance depot.
c1830, possibly incorporating structure of earlier stables
c1700; altered late C19 and C20. Yellow brick, Flemish bond,
stuccoed front, hipped Welsh slated roofs. Courtyard plan,
with internal court approached through arched gateway at
front.
EXTERIOR: 1 and 2 storeys, upper floor originally stable
lofts. Front has 2 pavilions, left and right, of stuccoed
brick, with 2 recessed wood casement windows at first floor,
in splayed surround with flat dripmoulds above. Moulded stucco
eaves band with castellated stucco parapet above, concealing
hipped Welsh slate roof. Ground floor with 2 windows, that at
left of left pavilion lengthened as door. Central link with 2
windows with dripmould heads, stuccoed eaves band and
castellated parapet, either side of slightly recessed stuccoed
Tudor arch. Above, a projecting octagonal clock turret above,
with moulded stucco corbel base, inner and outer clock faces,
octagonal bellcote above, with chamfered shouldered openings
on 4-pinnacle roof, lead covered with roll hips and with iron
weathervane finial.
Outer elevations have yellow brick walls with stucco arcaded
architrave surrounds to sash windows on ground and first
floors. Courtyard partly blocked with later buildings not of
special interest and east wing reconstructed asbestos-roofed
lean-to heightened in 1950s. Some first-floor loft doors
remain in situ. King post roof structure.
Although much altered the stables are important as the only
major surviving building associated with the earlier Goldings
house, and are an important element in the setting of the
replacement mansion of 1871-77.
(Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses: Selective Inventory: London:
1993-: 82; Hertfordshire Countryside: Campbell D: Goldings: a
curious Hertfordshire Mansion: Letchworth: 1946-1973: 34-5,
38; Dixon R: Victorian Architecture: London: 1978-: 50-2, 257;
Girouard M: The Victorian Country House: New Haven and London:
1979-: 84-5, 438).

Listing NGR: TL3106814150

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559094

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Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living