Home Farm House
HOME FARM HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103644
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Home Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- HOME FARM HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103644
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Home Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOME FARM HOUSE
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:
- HOME FARM HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Hertsmere (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 17122 96083
Details
TQ 19 NE ALDENHAM ALDENHAM ROAD (Northeast side) Elstree
7/7 Home Farm House -
- II
House. 1879-81 by W.Butterfield for H.H.Gibbs. Polychrome brick with sham timber framing. Tilehanging. Part old tiled, part machine tiled roof. Domestic Revival Style. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical front with full height entrance porch to right of centre. Chamfered surround to entrance in 4-centred relieving arch. Diagonally set brick course to upper stage, stone course below sham timber framed first floor with 2 small mullioned sashes. Decorative timbers in gable jettied out on corbels. Cusped bargeboard. To left: ground floor 2-light sash with stone sill, flat arched head. Black brick patterning, right bay similar with narrow 1 light sash. First floor: left: sham timber frame over stone course, right: decorative tilehanging with hipped roof to right with gablet. Left return: ground floor double sash with black brick patterning. First floor sash in sham timber frame, corbels to gable with cusped bargeboard. 2 stacks to rear of main ridge, that to right with stone offsets and caps. Simpler shaft to left. Right return: first floor tilehanging. Gabled wing to rear. 1 storey link, extended forward in C20 to square dairy: black brick patterning, clasping brick buttresses at angles and intermediate straight buttresses. 2 slit windows with stained glass to each bay, stone course at sill level, stone cornice. Pyramidal roof interrupted by louvred sham timber framed lantern. Wrought iron finial. Interior not inspected. (P.Thompson W. Butterfield 1971).
Listing NGR: TQ1712296083
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164054
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Thompson, P, William Butterfield Victorian Architect, (1971)
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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