The Big Black Barn at Hunsdon Lodge Farm 500 Metres Along Track
THE BIG BLACK BARN AT HUNSDON LODGE FARM 500 METRES ALONG TRACK, DRURY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1101968
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Big Black Barn at Hunsdon Lodge Farm 500 Metres Along Track
- Statutory Address:
- THE BIG BLACK BARN AT HUNSDON LODGE FARM 500 METRES ALONG TRACK, DRURY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1101968
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Big Black Barn at Hunsdon Lodge Farm 500 Metres Along Track
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BIG BLACK BARN AT HUNSDON LODGE FARM 500 METRES ALONG TRACK, DRURY LANE
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:
- THE BIG BLACK BARN AT HUNSDON LODGE FARM 500 METRES ALONG TRACK, DRURY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hunsdon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 42436 14364
Details
TL 41 SW HUNSDON DRURY LANE (east end)
2/1 The Big Black Barn at Hunsdon Lodge 14.4.83 Farm 500 metres along track
GV II*
Lodgings range, now a barn. C16, altered to a barn in C18. Timberframed and weatherboarded with a steep old red tile gabled roof. Double doors on E side. A tall unaisled barn facing E. ormerly an important 2 storeys domestic building approximately 20 x 8 metres. Former 8-bay structure altered by creating 2 middle wider bays from 4, leaving 1 original bay at S end and 3 at N end. Queen post trusses with 2 butt purlins in line with each slope. Deep paired arched wind braces to lower purlin. Squared, chamfered, jowled posts of great size, with deep arched braces to tie beams. Remains of serpentine tension bracing in walls and rebated studs for upper windows. Tie beams have mortices for an original ceiling/attic floor. ..all posts have paired vertical mortices and cut back ledge for upper floor beams, and mortice for a brace under. The building was presumably part of Hunsdon Lodge, a royal hunting lodge, recorded in the Tudor Period (HLHS (1979) 34). Remains of an early 2 storeys timberframed house of exceptional size and quality. Part of the picturesque group of tarred farm buildings at Hunsdon Lodge Farm.
Listing NGR: TL4243614364
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159942
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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