L-SHAPED OUTBUILDING WEST OF ROOKS NEST FARMHOUSE.

L-SHAPED OUTBUILDING WEST OF ROOKS NEST FARMHOUSE., WESTON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031558
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: L-SHAPED OUTBUILDING WEST OF ROOKS NEST FARMHOUSE.
Statutory Address:: L-SHAPED OUTBUILDING WEST OF ROOKS NEST FARMHOUSE., WESTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031558
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: L-SHAPED OUTBUILDING WEST OF ROOKS NEST FARMHOUSE.
Statutory Address 1:: L-SHAPED OUTBUILDING WEST OF ROOKS NEST FARMHOUSE., WESTON ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: L-SHAPED OUTBUILDING WEST OF ROOKS NEST FARMHOUSE., WESTON ROAD

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 24334 26596

Details

TL22NW 733/4/10010

STEVENAGE WESTON ROAD L-shaped outbuilding west of Rooks Nest Farmhouse

GV II

Farm outbuilding. Mid-late C17, with minor C20 alterations and additions. Timber-framed construction, with feather-edged board cladding, set upon a brick plinth, laid to English Bond. Plain tile roof covering to rear facing roof slopes, and C20 corrugated sheeting to inner slopes. PLAN; L-shaped range, comprised of 2 barns built at right angles to each other, the west part aligned north-south, the south part aligned east-west, each part with a porched entrance opening on the yard elevations. SOUTH RANGE: NORTH ELEVATION of 5 bays with hipped east end. Central gabled porch with fully boarded front, and inserted C20 single door. C20 lean-to infill to east of porch. SOUTH ELEVATION with 2 square taking-in openings below the eaves, and a blocked doorway above the plinth. WEST RANGE: EAST ELEVATION of 5 bays with altered north gable, now with sole plate removed and tie beam supported by C20 post. Gabled porch to centre, with C20 framed, ledged and braced double doors. C20 lean-to infill to north side of porch. WEST ELEVATION with altered double doorway, a wide door now carried on C20 sliding gear. INTERIORS: Each range is comprised of 5 fully-framed bays, with jowled principal posts set upon lap~jointed sole plates, and carrying mid-rails, wall plates with face-halved and bladed scarf joints and arch-braced tie beams. Above, clasped principal purlins supported by raking struts, collar beams with clasped collar purlins and ridge collars. The rafters are mostly of oak. At the junction of the 2 ranges, the internal angle of the brick plinth appears unaltered, suggesting that both ranges form part of a single building phase. Similarly, the wall plate at the internal junction bears no sign of having carried rafter feet. This mid-late C17 range appears to comprise 2 barns designed to work in tandem on 2 sides of an enclosed yard. The building forms a group with the adjacent farmhouse, (item 4/155).

Listing NGR: TL2433426596

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 468998
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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