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TQ1395 : Lululand Court

Lululand

The entrance at Lululand Court is the surviving fragment of the house built for the painter Sir Hubert von Herkomer RA, who was himself responsible for much of the detail, as the architect Henry Hobson Richardson died in 1886, the year building commenced; work was not completed until 1894. Pevsner and Cherry, in their guide to Hertfordshire (1977) write: " It must at all costs be preserved, as it is the only European work by the best American later 19th-century architect,.. The entrance is eminently typical of Richardson: a big heavy archway with free acanthus foliage in the door lintel and tympanum, and two corner turrets. Good solid stone, white and red. The rest of the house was demolished in 1939."

Listed Grade II*