Home Farm House
HOME FARM HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100394
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Home Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- HOME FARM HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100394
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Home Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOME FARM HOUSE
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:
- HOME FARM HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Gaddesden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 00102 12330
Details
LITTLE GADDESDEN LITTLE GADDESDEN TL 01 SW (East side) 2/202 Home Farm House -
GV II
Farmhouse, now a private house, C17 or earlier, hipped central clock tower c.1804 probably by Jeffry Wyatt, 2 crosswings demolished and brick casing 1877 for Lord Brownlow, subsequent extensions to rear and S end in 5 stages. Plum brick casing to timber frame with lighter red brick arches and clock tower (top stage stucco with circular dial) and steep pitched roofs now slated. A 2-storeys and cellar house facing W with 2-cells, central entrance, end-chimneys plan and parallel C19 rear range, adapted from a larger house in 1877. 2 windows to each floor and 6-panel door in base of central clock tower. Large early C18 red and black brick chequered chimney stack with corner pilasters at N end, 1877 copy at S end, and old bell cupola in centre with ogee roof, arcaded sides and wind vane. 2 storey gabled bay window on left of door with 4-light casements and weatherboarded gable. 3-light wooden casements on RH and single-storey extension set back to S. The roof sweeps in a curve down to the front eaves where the eaves have been raised without altering the roof structure internally. A painting by J.H.Buckingham c.1820 (Herts Countryside Nov.1976 p.30) shows the present house with higher 2-storeys and attics crosswings at each end, a buttressed entrance porch at the N end of the central range in line with the present C18 chimney, and the front eaves in line with the base of the stucco top stage of the clock tower. The cupola and bells is on the roof and there is a broken chimney in the position of the present S chimney. The clock is marked John Thwaites London 1804 like the Ashridge tower clock. The farm was the home farm to the Ashridge estate. (Senar(1983)105-6).
Listing NGR: TL0010212330
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157733
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Senar, H, Little Gaddesden and Ashridge, (1983), 105-6
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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