LOWER FARM HOUSE AND NUMBER 2 LOWER YARD COTTAGES
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1102578
Date first listed: 03-Jun-1987
Statutory Address: LOWER FARM HOUSE AND NUMBER 2 LOWER YARD COTTAGES, HIGH STREET
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Location
Statutory Address: LOWER FARM HOUSE AND NUMBER 2 LOWER YARD COTTAGES, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Hertfordshire
District: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish: Barley
National Grid Reference: TL 39948 38626
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History
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Details
BARLEY HIGH STREET
TL 3938 (East side)
Barley
7/86 Lower Farm House
and No. 2
Lower Yard Cottages
GV II
House, now 2 dwellings. c.1500, stack and floor inserted early C17,
extended C18, altered C19 and C20. Timber frame on brick base. Rendered.
Steeply pitched machine tiled roof. Originally a 3 bay end hall house, 1
bay added to rear. Now all 1 storey and attic. Storeyed bay with jettied
gable end towards road, roughcast ground floor with curved brackets to
first floor, 3 light flush frame casement with hoodboard in attic,
exposed plates. Left return is entrance front. Ground floor: recessed
plank doors with shaped brackets to hoods in centre and rear bays, to
left a 3 light C19 canted oriel on brackets, to centre a 3 light small
pane flush frame casement, to right a C20 2 light window. 2 and 3 light
half dormers, some early leaded lights, raking heads. Ridge stack
inserted between hall bays. Rear gable end has an originally external
stack now in a lower 1 bay addition with a ground floor casement,
weatherboarding, exposed plates and purlins to rear. Right return from
end to road has scattered casements, a C20 lean-to outshut. Interior:
brick and clunch stack, first floor fireplace with chamfered brick
depressed 4 centred arched head above which is an early C17 wall
painting of 3 vases with flowers linked by festoons. Jowled posts,
cambered tie beams of large scantling. Formerly known as Playstow Farm
House. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3994838626
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 162542
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.
End of official listing