OAKFIELD FARM BARN

OAKFIELD FARM BARN, SYMONDS GREEN LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387280
Date first listed:: 20-May-1999
List Entry Name:: OAKFIELD FARM BARN
Statutory Address:: OAKFIELD FARM BARN, SYMONDS GREEN LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387280
Date first listed:: 20-May-1999
List Entry Name:: OAKFIELD FARM BARN
Statutory Address 1:: OAKFIELD FARM BARN, SYMONDS GREEN LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OAKFIELD FARM BARN, SYMONDS GREEN LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Stevenage (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 22189 24799

Details

TL22SW SYMONDS GREEN LANE

733/6/10013 Oakfield Farm Barn

II

Farm building, formerly barn, and latterly in mixed usage. Empty and disused at time of inspection (29-4-1999). Late C16/early C17, with near contemporary additions and C19 and C20 alterations. Oak timber framing set upon a low red brick plinth with softwood external horizontal boarding and a corrugated iron sheet covering to half-hipped roof. PLAN: 5-bay range, aligned north-west to south-east, with added 5th bay and advanced porch at north-west end giving L-plan. EXTERIOR: North-east side with double doorway to bay 2 from left, a later single doorway inserted at bay 4, and an advanced gabled porch with double doors to bay 5. North-west side with single doorway inserted at bay 1. Plain gables with half hips. INTERIOR: Near complete timber frame formed of principal vertical posts with jowled heads These carry wall-plates jointed with face-halved and bladed scarfs. Tie beams spanning the building are fixed with full-lap dovetails and morticed into tenons to the jowl heads. The tie beams, which are braced to the wall posts, support raking struts which carry collar beams. The collar beams carry single side purlins, which are clasped between the collars and the principal rafters, which are reduced in thickness above the level of the collars. Bays 1 and 2 have double wind bracing, bays 3 and 4 each have a single brace. Rafters are half-lapped and pegged. Sole plate, mid-rails and wall plates are drilled on lower faces and grooved on upper faces to receive staves for wattle and daub panels, none of which now survive. Vertical studs, to walls, with straight braces notched over them in end walling. Bays 1 and 2 have wide oak boarding internally, with bay 1 having a timber trough fitted along the end wall, subdivided by a stall partition. Closed partition between bays 2 and 3, and collar and tie beams between bays 4 and 5 with mortice sockets and drilled holes for studs and wattle poles of former end wall. HISTORY: The farm of which the barn formed a part is shown on a 1766 County map, and the Richardson map of Stevenage of 1834. It is identified on Ordnance Survey maps of 1884 and 1889 as Fairview Farm. These maps show the barn forming the south-western boundary of a farm yard, with an L-shaped range to the north-east, and a house sited further to the east. The barn is a near-complete example of late C16 or early C17 timber-framing, displaying carpentry detailing characteristic of Hertfordshire practice, and retaining evidence of later extension and adaptation for animal husbandry.

Listing NGR: TL2218924799

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Legacy System number:: 475216
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.