CROXLEY HALL FARMHOUSE

List Entry Summary

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

Location

CROXLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, LAVEROCK LANE

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History

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Details

TQ 09 SE RICKMANSWORTH LAVROCK LANE (South side) Croxley Hall

9/175 Croxley Hall 26.7.51 Farm House

GV II

House. Late C16 almost entirely rebuilt in mid C19. Some timber framing remains with early red brick. Stock brick rebuild. Tiled roofs. Originally probably hall with parlour wing, rebuilt and extended. 2 storeys and attic. Gabled entrance porch to left, 4 centred arched head to entrance, cusped bargeboard. Further left a ground floor 6 light and first floor 3 light casements with cambered heads. To right an 8 light ground floor casement with leaded panes, cambered head. First floor two 3 light casements. Right bay projects slightly with gable to front, two 8 light casements, leaded panes, oculus in attic. Large cross axial stack to left possibly at original end. Roof half hipped to left. Right return has massive original red brick English bond external stack with an arched opening for a window into parlour, offsets, 3 diagonal shafts, part truncated. Entrance towards rear with timber porch with ornamented panels to base. Left return: cambered heads to 3 light casements. Rendered first floor addition. To rear: to right of 2 centre bays, red brick with exposed timber framing on first floor, to left French windows and first floor 3 light casement. English bond red brick base to projecting gabled wing to left. To right C19 wing projects further with a gable end stack. Interior: Late C16 or early C17 panelled parlour. (VCH 1908: RCHM 1910: Pevsner 1977).

Listing NGR: TQ0703894544

Selected Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1908)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)

National Grid Reference: TQ 07038 94544

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