Farmhouse at Finches Farm (Opposite Stevenage Road)
FARMHOUSE AT FINCHES FARM (OPPOSITE STEVENAGE ROAD), HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101352
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Farmhouse at Finches Farm (Opposite Stevenage Road)
- Statutory Address:
- FARMHOUSE AT FINCHES FARM (OPPOSITE STEVENAGE ROAD), HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101352
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Farmhouse at Finches Farm (Opposite Stevenage Road)
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARMHOUSE AT FINCHES FARM (OPPOSITE STEVENAGE ROAD), HIGH 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:
- FARMHOUSE AT FINCHES FARM (OPPOSITE STEVENAGE ROAD), HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Walkern
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 28827 25912
Details
TL 2825 WALKERN Finches End
HIGH STREET (east side)
8/1 Farmhouse at Finches Farm (opp.Stevenage Road) - I G.V.
Amend grade to read:- II
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Finches End TL 2825 WALKERN HIGH STREET (east side) 8/1 Farmhouse at Finches Farm (opp. Stevenage Road)
GV I
House. Late Cl7, extended in mid C19. Timber frame on stucco plinth, roughcast. Red brick SE wing extends as facing to S end. Steep hipped old red tile roofs. Catslide extension over rear outshut. A large 2-storeys and attics house facing W with hipped rear stair turret and 2-storeys later rear wing. Entrance now by parapeted red brick porch at S but probably built as a lobby- entry, central chimney plan house. Large central chimney C18 serving a corner fireplace in parlour at S and hall in centre, with vaulted alcove in sides of stack on ground floor. N room still fitted and floored as a dairy with chimney inserted at NW. Near symmetrical W front has 3 hipped dormer windows on the roof slope with 2-light casements, 4 flush box sash windows to 1st floor with 6/6 panes, and 3 windows to ground floor, a 2-light casement to the dairy, a rectangular hipped bay window with triple sashes to the middle room, and a similar triple sash to the parlour. Canted grey brick sash window on S end. Front door in porch half-glazed with coloured margin lights. Interior has 2 Cl7 doors of overlapping moulded planks to dairy and game larder, closed-string oak newel stair with square balusters, rising through 3 floors, and 2-panel late C18 doors generally.
Listing NGR: TL2882725912
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159685
- 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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