Church Farmhouse
CHURCH FARMHOUSE, GURNEYS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103218
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, GURNEYS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103218
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, GURNEYS LANE
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:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, GURNEYS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Holwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 16541 33412
Details
HOLWELL GURNEYS LANE TL 1633 (West side)
9/18 Church Farmhouse 11.2.75
GV II
Farmhouse. W crosswing c.1500 (presumably associated with former hall range extending to W), late C16 range added on its E side, C18 brick internal chimney to this range, mid C19 brick W block replacing medieval hall range. Renovated 1975. Timber frame on high brick sill, roughcast. Yellow brick W block. Steep old red tile roofs. An irregular 2-storeys house, set back from lane, facing S into yard. E range has 2 windows to each floor and is jettied to front and rear. Flush casement windows of 3-lights and 2-lights on each floor. 4 curved brackets below jetty on S. Projecting gabled W crosswing has a 2-lights and single-light window on ground floor and a 3-lights window on 1st floor. Higher 2-storeys W block set back and projecting to rear has a gabled porch and canted bay to front. The interior of the older parts have exposed timbers. The W crosswing has close-studded walls, clasped-purlin roof, curved wind- braces, and a 3-light original ground floor window later blocked by the E range. This has 2 rooms on each floor, separated by a lobby and staircase, the lower W room a new hall heated originally by an internal timber-framed chimney, with an unheated parlour at E. When built the W crosswing will have been for service rooms and the medieval hall demoted to a kitchen. Only when the chimney was renewed in brick in C18 was a fireplace provided for the parlour also. Blocked doorway on 1st floor with 4-centred arched head formerly from stair. Close-studding and diamond-mullioned window in parlour. Upper rooms in jettied E range both have fragmentary wall paintings stylistically of c.1600. W room has repeated representations of panelling, with panels enclosed in strapwork. Central motif a diamond enclosed in an oval. Dado and elaborate frieze. The E room has a large scale repeat pattern in black on white of a 16-petals rose enclosing an 8-petaled centre. W block comprises a narrow entrance and stair hall, and 4 large heated rooms on 2 floors around a central chimney stack. (Pevsner (1977)209: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1654133412
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163028
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 209
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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