GRIST HOUSE FARM

GRIST HOUSE FARM, LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101227
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: GRIST HOUSE FARM
Statutory Address:: GRIST HOUSE FARM, LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101227
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: GRIST HOUSE FARM
Statutory Address 1:: GRIST HOUSE FARM, LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146)

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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Location

Statutory Address:: GRIST HOUSE FARM, LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146)

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:: Great Gaddesden
National Grid Reference:: TL 04434 09928

Details

GREAT GADDESDEN LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD(A4146) TL 00 NW (West side) Water End 5/110 Grist House Farm -

GV II

Farmhouse, now a private house. Circa 1700, NW extension in angle of house and rear wing c.1800 and brick rear wall. Timber frame on brick sill in Flemish-bond, lower sill on S side in English-bond. Roughcast front and sides, red brick rear wall. Steep hipped old red tile roof. Slate roofed lean-to on N end, rustic timber 2-bays loggia on S end. A square, 2-storeys and cellar house, set back from road, facing E, with 2 windows to each floor. Flush box sash windows with 2/2 panes, deeper on ground floor. Half-glazed early C19 flush beaded panelled door in centre with moulded wooden surround and later gabled rustic porch. Originally L-shaped with 2 windows, central-chimney S range. Transomed 2-light casement windows. Extended to square double-pile plan with chimneys on mid-wall and central entrance and staircase. Interior: has unjowled posts to frame, chamfered axial beams in front range, original moulded plank door.

Listing NGR: TL0443409928

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Legacy System number:: 157889
Legacy System:: LBS

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