Three Mile Pond Farmhouse (400 Yards North of Bull Public House)
THREE MILE POND FARMHOUSE (400 YARDS NORTH OF BULL PUBLIC HOUSE), CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101664
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Three Mile Pond Farmhouse (400 Yards North of Bull Public House)
- Statutory Address:
- THREE MILE POND FARMHOUSE (400 YARDS NORTH OF BULL PUBLIC HOUSE), CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101664
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Three Mile Pond Farmhouse (400 Yards North of Bull Public House)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THREE MILE POND FARMHOUSE (400 YARDS NORTH OF BULL PUBLIC HOUSE), CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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:
- THREE MILE POND FARMHOUSE (400 YARDS NORTH OF BULL PUBLIC HOUSE), CAMBRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sawbridgeworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 48498 16040
Details
CAMBRIDGE ROAD 1. 5253 (East Side) Three Mile Pond Farmhouse (400 yds N of Bull PH) TL 484 160:4/9 6.6.52 II GV 2. C16 with Cl7 additions. 2 bay 2 storey timberframed house of high quality, plastered under steep old red tile roof. Massive external gable chimney to E in red brick with engaged shafts and crow stepped gable. Mullioned wooden windows with diamond leaded lights and iron casements. Interior timbers exposed. Framed cross partition with tension bracing at 1st floor. Axial beams and every joist chamfered and stopped. Tension bracing to corners on 1st floor. Plank doors hung on iron pins. Older entrance by plank door on S side. Present entrance by plank door with fluted carved panel on N side. Cl7 single storey kitchen extension to E gable. Timberframe with old red tile roof hipped to E with gable chimney, now pierced by doorway. 3 light mullioned window on N with leaded glazing. Ceiled under collars. Taller late C17 parlour block extending W to roadside. Timberframe plastered. Steep old tile roof hipped to W and half-hipped to E. Hipped dormer on W slope. 2 high storeys, cellar and attic. Large internal chimney divides rooms from staircase to E. Timber boxed eaves with broad timber cove. Iron gutters with lion masks. Eaves cove breaks forward over 3 windows to 1st floor on S and N sides. C17 tall 2-light mullioned and transomed 'cross' windows with rectangular leaded glazing and iron casements. Central and E window on N side blocked. Single window on each side to Gd floor parlour. This room is panelled in pine with small panels and scratch moulded framing. Moulded 6 panel door with raised and fielded panels, H-hinges, elaborate moulded architrave. Corner cupboard (SW) with fluted pilasters, semi-domed head and shaped shelves. A different corner cupboard (NW) with fluted pilasters and glazed door with intersecting bars. Raised and fielded door to lower part. Some C19 woodwork to N of fireplace. Well stair with newels, heavy balusters and moulded handrail swept at quarter landings. Upper floor has 2 panel doors with raised and fielded panels and iron hinges. A-frame roof with ten one butt purlins. Tall parlour block is a prominent landmark. (RCHM (1911) 204:VCH III (1912) 332).
Listing NGR: TL4849816040
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160752
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 332
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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