The Old Dairy
THE OLD DAIRY, RINGSHALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078045
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Dairy
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD DAIRY, RINGSHALL ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078045
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Dairy
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD DAIRY, RINGSHALL ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD DAIRY, RINGSHALL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 97830 12310
Details
ALDBURY RINGSHALL ROAD SP 91 SE (West side) 5/2 - The Old Dairy - II House. Late C17 ('HL/RE/169?' on front plaque), renovated in C18 and C19. Red brick in Flemish bond with tie-beam exposed in E gable and timber framed W gable triangle. Steep pitched roof with rear catslide to outshut, now slated. A 2-storeys and attic house facing S with E end to road. Single storey tiled end extensions set back to line with the rear outshut. S front has a plastered plinth, floor-band, 2 windows to each floor, and a rustic gabled porch to plank door in middle with segmental arch. 3-light flush casements with flat gauged arches, and small panes. Date plaque over porch. E end has a small C18 lattice window on RH to attic. Small blocked similar window on LH and partly covered by very large external E gable chimney with chamfered offsets. Later small W gable chimney. The E extension may be original having a chamfered plinth, English bond in lower part, 2-light plate casement window and plank door. This has in its rear wall a large brick oven, fireplace, and copper. It is entered from the house via the dairy in the rear outshut. The staircase also rises in the outshut. The larger E room has a cased axial beam. The wall between house and outshut has brick panels between thin timber studs which suggests the outshut is original. Chamfered axial beam to W room, where the external W chimney and fireplace, and the separate stair in the outshut may have been inserted in C19. The oven was in use 60 years ago. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: SP9783012310
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355638
- 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.
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