Rent Street Barn
RENT STREET BARN, CHIPPERFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1167711
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Rent Street Barn
- Statutory Address:
- RENT STREET BARN, CHIPPERFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1167711
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Rent Street Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- RENT STREET BARN, CHIPPERFIELD ROAD
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:
- RENT STREET BARN, CHIPPERFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bovingdon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 02130 03208
Details
BOVINGDON CHIPPERFIELD ROAD TL 00 SW (South side) 6/13 Rent Street Barns -
GV II*
Farmhouse, now a private house. C16 with lower E part later than W part, W crosswing and hall to W of it and alterations c.1930 by Edmund Wimperis. Timber frames on brick sills, with plastered or painted brick infill. Steep old red tile roofs. C16, 2-storeys, 3-bays, end cross-passage plan house facing N with continuous N side jetty and 1½ storeys 3-bays structure added in C16 to E end, possibly a byre in the long-house tradition but probably service wing to house. 2 close-studded bays on ground floor and jettied gabled W crosswing and separate W hall open to roof c.1930 in antiquarian taste. Original walls have 4 or 5 wide panels to each bay. Entrance moved from E bay of hall, where passage was behind large chimney to gain entry to hall, to W bay of E part. Each of 6 bays has a window and there are 2 gabled dormers at the eaves to the E part. 2-light small square casement windows, but 2 3-light transomed windows inserted below jetty. Jetty has main beams carried on brackets and bull-nosed joists between. Interior has exposed timbers with 2 longitudinal beams to middle bay jettied part and the narrower E bay containing great chimney and cross passage. Trimming possibly for a stair in SW corner of hall. Parlour a step down in W bay has a single axial beam. All beams and joists on ground floor chamfered and hollow stopped. Large ogee-and-roll shaped bracket over wide fireplace to carry a floor beam in hall. Heavy jowled posts and quadrant curved tension braces. Wattle and daub infill in E wall in attic. Clasped- purlin roof with collar and struts and wind braces. Chamfered joists and beams carry floor of former attic. Structure of lower E part of roof open to stairwell with curved braces to cambered tie-beams, clasped purlin roof on inclined curved queen-posts with wind braces to purlins. At SE corner of jettied post are the mortices under the wallplates of a 4-light diamond mullioned window. Circular cast iron Boxmoor grazing rights plaque no. 588 (with no. 589 preserved inside). (RCHM(1911)66 no.3: Roberts(1975)no.14: Pevsner(1977)107).
Listing NGR: TL0213003208
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157542
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Roberts, E, The Bovingdon Survey, ()
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 107
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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