West Barn at Nine Ashes Farm 65 Metres North West of House
WEST BARN AT NINE ASHES FARM 65 METRES NORTH WEST OF HOUSE, ACORN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101284
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- West Barn at Nine Ashes Farm 65 Metres North West of House
- Statutory Address:
- WEST BARN AT NINE ASHES FARM 65 METRES NORTH WEST OF HOUSE, ACORN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101284
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- West Barn at Nine Ashes Farm 65 Metres North West of House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST BARN AT NINE ASHES FARM 65 METRES NORTH WEST OF HOUSE, ACORN STREET
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:
- WEST BARN AT NINE ASHES FARM 65 METRES NORTH WEST OF HOUSE, ACORN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hunsdon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 41667 13254
Details
TL 4113 HUNSDON ACORN STREET (east side) 8/11 West Barn at Nine Ashes - Farm 65 metres NW of house
GV II
Barn. Later C16, probably built for Sir Thomas Forster. 5-bay single-aisled barn with gabled porch projecting in centre of S side. Timberframed and weatherboarded on a low brick plinth. Steep old red tiled roof, half-hipped at W but gabled at E where it adjoins the East Barn. aisle roof raised in C18 but old structure remains. Square jowled posts with long curved braces to arcade plate and tie beams. Tension bracing in walls above mid- rails tennoned in line. Spur walls and sills carry arcade posts. Long down brace from post halved over aisle tie beam and carried down to jowled post in aisle wall. Slender inclined queen strut and collar trusses with clasped purlin roof and curved paired wind braces. Face-halved bladed scarf in front wall plate and rear arcade plate. An historic 5-bay C16 barn of unusual form for this area. Part of picturesque farm group, and 1 of several surviving late C16 structures.
Listing NGR: TL4166713254
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159932
- 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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