Bury Farmhouse

BURY FARMHOUSE, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1168042
Date first listed:
02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
Bury Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
BURY FARMHOUSE, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1168042
Date first listed:
02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
Bury Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
BURY FARMHOUSE, CHURCH STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BURY FARMHOUSE, CHURCH STREET

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 01896 03793

Details

BOVINGDON CHURCH STREET TL 0103 (North end) 10/19 Bury Farmhouse -

GV II

Farmhouse. W range early C17, E rear extension later C17, extended to N and brick cased with pilasters in early/mid C19. Timber frame with painted brick infill exposed at E of rear wing, white painted brick with steep old red tiled roofs. Z-plan 2-storeys and attic house facing W. Early C17 2-windows W range with large internal chimney rising through the front roofslope. Parallel roofed E range has exposed framing on E side, a large external chimney at S end of that wall and a single storey brick and tile kitchen projecting E from its C19 N end. W fronts of both ranges have brick pilasters and 3-light casement windows. Entrance in lean-to porch in NW angle. Good exposed internal timbering with jowled posts, clasped-purlin roof with collar trusses, chamfered cross-beams in W range, axial with bar-stops in E extension. (Roberts(1975) No.19).

Listing NGR: TL0189603794

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
157546
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Roberts, E, The Bovingdon Survey, ()

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Bury Farmhouse

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