Hillside Farmhouse
HILLSIDE FARMHOUSE, 15, LOWER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102441
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Hillside Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HILLSIDE FARMHOUSE, 15, LOWER ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04749/17
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102441
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Hillside Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILLSIDE FARMHOUSE, 15, LOWER 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:
- HILLSIDE FARMHOUSE, 15, LOWER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- King's Walden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 15459 22098
Details
TL 12 SE KINGS WALDEN LOWER ROAD (East side) Breachwood Green
4/32 No. 15 27.5.68 (Hillside Farmhouse)
GV II
House. Late medieval open hall range, C17 taller S crosswing, windows C19. Timber frame roughcast with steep old red tile roofs. A T-plan house, set back from road, facing W, with 16 storeys hall range and 2-storeys and attic crosswing. The older hall has been truncated at both ends and the present entrance and entrance-passage in the N side of the wing may replace the former crosspassage. Large internal stack to N end of hall range with pilaster strips to shaft and space on its E flank for a stair. 3-bays crosswing has partitioned rear-bay with broad winding stair in NE corner rising to attic. Very large external chimney on S side of wing serving fireplaces on ground and 1st floor. W front has a 2-lights casement window to the hall range with a similar window in a dormer over. Show-front of gabled wing has separate jetties to gable triangle with small 3-lights attic window, and to 1st floor with a 4-lights casement windows. Canted bay window to ground floor under jetty with painted heavy battened door to left. Interior has arched- braced tie-beam of open truss of hall above upper floor level and queen-struts to collar of clasped-purlin roof. N-end truss of inclined queen-post type. The inserted floor with bead-moulded joists is carried on an axial beam moulded with a hollow chamfer-plus-roll on each side. The large 2-bays room on the ground floor of the wing has a broad chamfered beam with stops indicating that the passage partition is an addition. Fine 4-centred Totternhoe stone fireplace with ovolo moulding within a cyma moulded square frame. Smaller similar fireplace to chamber on 1st floor. The attic has a roof carried on 2 butt-purlins in each slope. Iron fishtail pattern hinges to plank door to attic. A little- altered example of a C17 crosswing with show front. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1545922098
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162824
- 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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