FARMHOUSE AT CUTTING HILL FARM

FARMHOUSE AT CUTTING HILL FARM, WHEMPSTEAD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101378
Date first listed:: 24-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: FARMHOUSE AT CUTTING HILL FARM
Statutory Address:: FARMHOUSE AT CUTTING HILL FARM, WHEMPSTEAD ROAD

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Date:: 2001-10-17
Reference:: IOE01/05150/01
Rights:: © Mr A. Gude. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101378
Date first listed:: 24-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: FARMHOUSE AT CUTTING HILL FARM
Statutory Address 1:: FARMHOUSE AT CUTTING HILL FARM, WHEMPSTEAD ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FARMHOUSE AT CUTTING HILL FARM, WHEMPSTEAD ROAD

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Benington
National Grid Reference:: TL 31190 22194

Details

Cutting Hill TL 32 SW BENINGTON WHEMPSTEAD ROAD (north side)

4/26 Farmhouse at Cutting Hill Farm

24.11.66

GV II

House. Early C16 open hall house; heightened and floors and central chimney inserted mid Cl7, later Cl7 2-storeys porch and rear stair turret. Late Cl7 N dairy wing; extended to RH in mid C20 and beyond dairy in 1970's. Originally a 3-cell building with open hall flanked by bays of one and a half storeys for parlour at S and service at N. Timber frame, weatherboarded on ground floor with pargetting above. Steep hipped old red tile roof. A long, 2-storeys, 3-cell, central-chimney, lobby-entry plan house facing W. Red brick chimney stepped on plan. Later small N gable chimney. S bay C20. Entry now direct into hall to N of chimney with chamfered and ogee stopped cross-beam. Axial beam to parlour on S of chimney and to Service room at N end. 5 windows W front including porch window. Window inserted in old doorway and new door to left. Interior has old wallplates and principal posts remaining at NW, NE and SE corners of hall. Open fireplace with lintol in hall has a pointed recess at the back. Winding stair round square newel with carved finial. Old boarded doors with iron hinges. Face-halved bladed scarf joints in rear upper wallplate. Boxed in fireplace to chamber over parlour said to have 3-centred chamfered stone surround. Called Cutten Hill in lease of 1702 (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL3119022194

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Legacy System number:: 159641
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.