East and South Barns at Whelpley Ash Farm
EAST AND SOUTH BARNS AT WHELPLEY ASH FARM, CHESHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100474
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- East and South Barns at Whelpley Ash Farm
- Statutory Address:
- EAST AND SOUTH BARNS AT WHELPLEY ASH FARM, CHESHAM ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100474
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- East and South Barns at Whelpley Ash Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST AND SOUTH BARNS AT WHELPLEY ASH FARM, CHESHAM 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:
- EAST AND SOUTH BARNS AT WHELPLEY ASH FARM, CHESHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bovingdon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 00405 03341
Details
BOVINGDON CHESHAM ROAD TL 00 SW (South side) 6/4 East and South Barns - at Whelpley Ash Farm
GV II
2 barns adjoining at right angles. Mid C17 S barn, later C17 E barn. Timber frames on brick sills, dark weatherboarding with steep red tile roofs. Older S barn of 6 bays with gabled projecting S porch off-centre to W. Jowled posts with long straight braces to tie-beams. Inclined queen-posts support a clasped-purlin in each slope with principal not diminished above notch to house purlin. Collar truss in porch. E barn has 3 narrow bays at N with jowled posts with curved inclined queen-posts in roof and housings for former axial floor beams between the tie-beams. Mortices in posts for a floor structure. A lower floor has been inserted. Bays to S end have unjowled posts. N bay next road largely rebuilt in C19.
Listing NGR: TL0040503341
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157533
- 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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