FARMHOUSE AT CHAPEL FARM INCLUDING FORMER CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1101421
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1984
- Statutory Address:
- FARMHOUSE AT CHAPEL FARM INCLUDING FORMER CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- FARMHOUSE AT CHAPEL FARM INCLUDING FORMER CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL
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 32563 25473
Details
TL 3225 ARDELEY WOOD END
(north side)
10/3 Farmhouse at Chapel Farm
including former
- Congregational Chapel
GV II*
House, and former Chapel, now one property. House late C16.
Timber frame with close-studding exposed on front and rear.
Steep old red tile roof. A 2-storeys, 5-bay, 3-cell plan house
facing S with a continuous front jetty and central chimney
backing onto cross passage a third from the W end. C17 red brick
chimney of conjoined square shafts. Winding stair to N of
chimney (renewed). Hall in middle with axial beam moulded with
double cyma. Unheated parlour at E end with exposed framing in
walls and upper floor structure. Joists rest on a rail in the
rear (N) wall are not jointed to wall. Service room at W end
formerly had a screen separating it from the cross-passage. S
entrance by moulded 4-centred arched doorway with carved
spandrels. 3 windows front with moulded and carved bressumer,
small 2-light flush casement windows on upper floor and larger
ones on ground floor. Plank door with decorative hinges.
Moulded doorway with segmental arched head into hall. Very heavy
exposed floor joists. A little altered C16 jettied house of
great interest. Former Congregational Chapel at E end of house,
erected 1820 as a preaching station for Wymondley Academy
(datestone on W wall: VCH (1912) 198) and rebuilt 1862 (datestone
on E front). Red brick with slate roofs. Grey brick used for
pilasters and polychrome arch and raking cornices on E front,
side lean-to porches. Triple round-headed stone window. Pointed
moulded stone doorways. Main axis of chapel N-S with entrance
gabled frontispiece on roadside on E. Became part of house in
1970's. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3256325473
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159538
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 198
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
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