Farmhouse at Wakeley Farm
FARMHOUSE AT WAKELEY FARM, WAKELEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102207
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Farmhouse at Wakeley Farm
- Statutory Address:
- FARMHOUSE AT WAKELEY FARM, WAKELEY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102207
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Farmhouse at Wakeley Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARMHOUSE AT WAKELEY FARM, WAKELEY
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:
- FARMHOUSE AT WAKELEY FARM, WAKELEY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Westmill
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 34139 26815
Details
TL 32 NW WESTMILL WAKELEY (south side)
1/1 Farmhouse at Wakeley Farm -
GV II
2 houses, now one house. Late C16 or early C17, linked in C19. Timber frame roughcast, C18 red brick casing to ground floor at S end bay, C19 grey brick link with stair and front porch. Steep roofs now slated. 2 separate houses built less than 2m apart for separate households to work the same farm. Houses in line facing E with a 3-cell central-chimney house at S, and a T-plan house to N with a crosswing at its S end projecting to front and rear. C19 gabled E porch fronts the infill linking the houses with roof of S house extended to N. 2 storeys, with storage-attic in crosswing of N part with external gable door at rear. Irregular E front with 3 windows to each side of porch. Flush box sash windows with 6/6 panes to S bay with 2 on each floor on gable end. Single-light leaded casement in line with central chimney of S house, 4-light leaded casement window over a triple sash window to right and left of porch and 2-and 3-light similar windows to N part with French windows on ground floor. Gabled grey brick porch with slate roof, heavy cusped bargeboards and carved finial. Gauged pointed arch to doorway and small side windows. Canted bay window with hipped slate roof on N gable. Rear lateral chimney to N house with 8-light mullioned window now a screen in front of later glazing. Interior has exposed beams, double-curved brace in ground floor of S part, fireplace c1700 on ground floor in lateral stack of N part, and 2-light ovolo- moulded C17 window frame in N house. (RCHM Typescript)
Listing NGR: TL3413926815
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161390
- 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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