FARMHOUSE AT LITES FARM

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101420
Date first listed:: 31-May-1984
List Entry Name:: FARMHOUSE AT LITES FARM
Statutory Address:: FARMHOUSE AT LITES FARM

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Date:: 2002-12-18
Reference:: IOE01/08606/28
Rights:: © Mr A. Gude. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101420
Date first listed:: 31-May-1984
List Entry Name:: FARMHOUSE AT LITES FARM
Statutory Address 1:: FARMHOUSE AT LITES FARM

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:: FARMHOUSE AT LITES FARM

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Ardeley
National Grid Reference:: TL 32376 25561

Details

TL 3225 ARDELEY WOOD END (north side)

10/1 Farmhouse at Lites Farm -

GV II

House. Late C16, altered in early C19. Timber frame on stucco plinth. Roughcast with steep pitched roof now slated. A small one and a half storeys, 2-cell, central chimney, lobby entry house, facing S. 3 structural bays with cut tie-beam a third from W end with C17 chimney built against it on E side. Parlour at E end with chamfered axial joists and trimming for stair. 2- bay E part with C18 rebuild of fireplace incorporating an oven. Chamfered axial beamsupported off fireplace lintol. Curved tension braces in walls and jowled posts. 2 windows S front with central gabled porch and large gabled dormer on eaves to E part. 3-light flush casement windows. 4-panel flush beaded door. Mentioned in Court Roll of 1674, and possibly a medieval manor house. (VCH (1912) 194).

Listing NGR: TL3237625561

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Legacy System number:: 159536
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 194

Legal

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