Description

HERTFORD

TL3013NW BROADOAK END
817-1/5/295 West garden walls and steps to
Broadoak Manor

GV II

Walls and steps to formal west garden of Broadoak Manor (qv).
c1923-4. Red brick, Flemish bond, York stone copings, steps.
Garden design influenced by contemporary Lutyens/Jekyll work,
with a central patte d'oie aligned on the west front of the
house, with beds framed in York stone and grass walks.
Enclosing walls linked to north-west corner of house, and have
brick rusticated piers, openings with rusticated quoins,
rubbed brick and tile flat and arched openings, tile-creased
bands, corbel bands and canted brick caps. Steps have York
stone treads and brick risers, brick dwarf walls with
semicircular niches flanking lowest flights. The steps lead to
an upper lawn, beyond the terraces, and through the wall to
the north-west, via an arched opening formerly gated.
The garden structures form an important element of the setting
of Broadoak Manor (qv).

Listing NGR: TL3070813810

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26682841

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)