Former Farmhouse at Great Barwick Farm

Great Barwick Manor, High Cross, Hertfordshire, SG11 1DB

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1102382
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Former Farmhouse at Great Barwick Farm
Statutory Address:
Great Barwick Manor, High Cross, Hertfordshire, SG11 1DB
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1102382
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
23-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:
Former Farmhouse at Great Barwick Farm
Statutory Address 1:
Great Barwick Manor, High Cross, Hertfordshire, SG11 1DB

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
Great Barwick Manor, High Cross, Hertfordshire, SG11 1DB

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Standon
National Grid Reference:
TL 38543 18865

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 March 2024 to amend the description, remove superfluous source details from text and to reformat the text to current standards

TL 31 NE
4/7

STANDON
BARWICK FORD (west side)
Great Barwick Manor

(Formerly listed as Farmhouse at Great Barwick Farm, previously listed as Great Barwick Farm House)

24.1.67

GV
II*
Farmhouse. Mid C16, west range C17, carefully restored c1966. Timber frame exposed on front and rear walls with plastered panels. Red brick sill. Projecting rear wing at North plastered.

Old red tiled hipped roofs. An early three-unit lobby entry house with central chimney and continuous side-jetty along the front (east). Two-storeys timber-frame C17 rear extension with three half-hipped gables along rear wall. Front has three three-light leaded casement windows on each floor (renewed), a wide arched wooden doorway with small three-light diamond-mullioned original window over door. Bull-nosed joists and heavy knee-braces to jetty. C20 red brick and tile lean-to with two hipped dormers at south end. Clasped purlin roof with curved wind braces, collars and curved braces to tie beams. Four bay original structure with only north bay partioned as parlour. Close studded walls with internal tension braces. Several diamond mullioned original windows with shutter grooves over. Central bay distinguished by chamfers and hollow stops on both axial beam and joists. Holes for bearers of dais bench. Short edge-halved scarf joints with bridled butts. C17 wings of lighter timbering.

Listing NGR: TL3854318865

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
160993
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Mercer, Eric, English Vernacular Houses, (1975), 170

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Former Farmhouse at Great Barwick Farm

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