Howells Farmhouse
HOWELLS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102490
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Howells Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HOWELLS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102490
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Howells Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOWELLS FARMHOUSE
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:
- HOWELLS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Weston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 27846 28088
Details
WESTON HALLS GREEN TL 22 NE 5/122 Howells Farmhouse - GV II
Manor house, a farmhouse from late C17 to 1970s, now a private house. Late medieval front range was a W crosswing to a former open hall extending to E, probably demolished in late C17 when SW parlour wing was added, E range extended a little to S to same line as new parlour, and short dairy wing added at NW. This wing extended for (?) brewhouse in early C18 when staircase built between the 2 rear wings, and interior adapted to plan of a new-built house of the period. Kitchen built at N end of E range C18 or C19. House carefully restored c.1970, W wing c.1975. Timber frame, roughcast and lined as ashlar with steep old red tile roofs. A large 2-storeys house set W side of large former farmyard facing E, with lean-to kitchen at N end. E front has symmetrical arrangement of 3 1st floor windows and central entrance. 3-lights flush casement windows (4-lights to left of door) and gabled Victorian timber porch to half-glazed door. Stucco keystones over ground floor windows. Tile creasing above brick casing to ground floor under roughcast finial. Large C16 rearwall chimney to S part of front range originally with one octagonal shaft and patterns in glazed brick, but adapted to 3 diagonal square shafts in late C17 when SW parlour wing added and 1st floor fireplace. C18 internal N gable chimney. 3 flush box sash windows to 1st floor on S with 3/6 panes. Canted bay window to S end of front range. Interior has exposed timbers, evidence for jetty to old front range which was a 3-bays crosswing with crown-post roof, square crown-post with heavy square-section braces to collar purlin and originally down-braces to tie-beams. Shaped end of wallplate to support former bargeboard, and originally without a fireplace or partitions. No obvious break in floor joists for staircase so probably an external stair. Depressed C17 4-centred arched head to chamber fireplace over parlour. Name from John de Hauile flour. c.1294. By 1580 owned by Kympton family. (VCH (1912)175: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL2784628088
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162734
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 175
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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