Description

TQ 09 SW RICKMANSWORTH NOTTINGHAM ROAD
(Northeast side)
Heronsgate

8/205 Sunnyside
27.7.72

GV II

Detached house. 1846-7 for Chartist Co-operative Land Company. Stuccoed
brick. Welsh slate roof. 1 storey. 3 bays. Slightly projecting pedimented
centre with bay window addition, a rectangular panel to bargeboards.
Outer bays with sashes in reveals. Plinth. Return gables have
rectangular panels with sides extended downwards, a sign used throughout
O'Connorville. Right end sash. Lean-to and a long low wing added to
left. 3 stacks to rear now in a catslide roofed rear outshut addition.
Interior not inspected. Amongst the best surviving examples of the
houses of O'Connorville founded by Feargus O'Connor, Chartist leader, as
the first settlement under his Land Plan, an important aftermath of
Chartism and precursor of Garden Cities. A school,and 35 cottages were
built, each with 2 to 4 acres of land. (Hertfordshire Past and Present,
no. 7, p,19, 1967: Pevsner 1977).

Listing NGR: TQ0261094210

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26631649

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)