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St. Catherines Road, BROXBOURNE, EN10 7LG

"Crazy" brickwork and flint topping are typical of the attention to picturesque detail on the St Catharine's estate.

One of the best sequences of picturesque streetscape on the St Catharine's estate.

One of the original houses on the St Catharine's estate, designed by the young Reginald Blomfield from 1883.

The southern boundary of the St Catharine's estate is the Spitalbrook, behind the hedge on the left.

Facing the Spitalbrook at the southern junction of the estate is this prettiest of its houses.

This photo shows how high the river is compared to the residential Admirals Walk estate to the left. The black bird on the bank was a coot. The photo was taken from the Upper Marsh Lane road bridge.

Grade 2 listed, architect Reginald Blomfield, 1894.

Typical of the original sylvan suburban conception of the St Catharine's estate in the 1880s is this bridge connecting a house on the right bank of Spitalbrook (Broxbourne) with St Catharine's Road on the left bank (Hoddesdon).

The position of this highly individual estate on the left bank of the Spitalbrook puts it in Hoddesdon, although it connects more naturally with other estates in Broxbourne and is part of the Broxbourne Conservation Area. The pierced bridge parapets, treating the stream crossing as something worthy of more than routine attention, establish the estate as something of a place apart immediately on entry from the Old North Road. Developed from 1883 onwards, the houses were designed by the architect Reginald Blomfield, most of whose early commissions were in the Hertford area. Reginald Blomfield was later to have a huge influence on British landscape as the designer of both a much-copied template for a World War One memorial and the standard National Grid electricity distribution pylon. He also designed the rebuilding of the southern curve of Regent Street and Piccadilly Circus in London and of The Headrow and Eastgate in Leeds.