Granary and 2 Adjoining Barns on Roadside at Wellhead Farm
GRANARY AND 2 ADJOINING BARNS ON ROADSIDE AT WELLHEAD FARM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102459
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Granary and 2 Adjoining Barns on Roadside at Wellhead Farm
- Statutory Address:
- GRANARY AND 2 ADJOINING BARNS ON ROADSIDE AT WELLHEAD FARM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102459
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Granary and 2 Adjoining Barns on Roadside at Wellhead Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRANARY AND 2 ADJOINING BARNS ON ROADSIDE AT WELLHEAD FARM
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:
- GRANARY AND 2 ADJOINING BARNS ON ROADSIDE AT WELLHEAD FARM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Preston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 17540 27626
Details
TL 12 NE PRESTON CHARLTON
2/76 Granary and 2 adjoining barns on roadside at Wellhead Farm
GV II
Granary and 2 adjoining barns. E barn mid C17, granary at W early C18, middle barn C18 linking the earlier buildings. Timber frames on red brick sills, red brick ground floor to granary, dark weatherboarded, with steep old red tile roofs to road at rear but some corrugated sheeting on yard side of the barn roofs. Some red brick infill to yard side of barns. A 2-storeys square building at entrance to yard has the granary reached by ladder on S over a brick stable with stable door on W. Tall 4-bays E barn has entrance in 2nd bay from N to yard. Heavy jowled posts with long straight braces to wallplates and tie-beams. Clasped purlin roof with one purlin to each slope and heavy inclined queen-posts wider at their upper ends where they join the principal and hold the purlin in a notch. Face-halved bladed scarf joints over postheads. Lower middle barn has gabled projecting S porch to yard and very steep roof. Unjowled posts and clasped-purlin roof on trusses with collars.
Listing NGR: TL1754027626
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162868
- 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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