FARMHOUSE AT STOCKS FARM

FARMHOUSE AT STOCKS FARM, STOCKS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101519
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: FARMHOUSE AT STOCKS FARM
Statutory Address:: FARMHOUSE AT STOCKS FARM, STOCKS ROAD

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Date:: 2001-11-26
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101519
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: FARMHOUSE AT STOCKS FARM
Statutory Address 1:: FARMHOUSE AT STOCKS FARM, STOCKS 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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Location

Statutory Address:: FARMHOUSE AT STOCKS FARM, STOCKS ROAD

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:: Aldbury
National Grid Reference:: SP 96493 13209

Details

ALDBURY STOCKS ROAD SP 91 SE (West side) 5/78 Farmhouse at - Stocks Farm GV II Farmhouse. 1908 by Smith and Brewer for Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the novelist, who then lived at Stocks House, (q.v.). Plum brick with red brick dressings, wooden eaves cornice and steep hipped red tile roof. A 2-storeys, 5 windows wide, symmetrical subdued Queen Anne revival house facing E. Red brick plinth carried up as aprons to lower windows, red rusticated interrupted quoins, triple brackets to wide painted eaves cornice, and 2 large square chimneys symmetrically placed just to rear of ridge. Flush box sash windows with segmental heads under 2 rings segmental red brick arches with 6/6 panes. Central door with upper half panelled, wooden doorcase with oval fluted pilasters and segmental pediment, and one brick step. 2 windows to each floor on S end. Single-storey outhouse adjoining on N. Included for group value. (Ernest: Willmott, English House Design, London (1911) 209).

Listing NGR: SP9649313209

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Legacy System number:: 355662
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Willmott, E, English House Design, (1911), 209

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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.