THREE BARNS AND COVERED GATEWAY ADJACENT AT HILL FARM (45 METRES TO EAST OF HOUSE)

THREE BARNS AND COVERED GATEWAY ADJACENT AT HILL FARM (45 METRES TO EAST OF HOUSE), LITTLE WOOD END

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1172842
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: THREE BARNS AND COVERED GATEWAY ADJACENT AT HILL FARM (45 METRES TO EAST OF HOUSE)
Statutory Address:: THREE BARNS AND COVERED GATEWAY ADJACENT AT HILL FARM (45 METRES TO EAST OF HOUSE), LITTLE WOOD END

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1172842
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: THREE BARNS AND COVERED GATEWAY ADJACENT AT HILL FARM (45 METRES TO EAST OF HOUSE)
Statutory Address 1:: THREE BARNS AND COVERED GATEWAY ADJACENT AT HILL FARM (45 METRES TO EAST OF HOUSE), LITTLE WOOD END

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: THREE BARNS AND COVERED GATEWAY ADJACENT AT HILL FARM (45 METRES TO EAST OF HOUSE), LITTLE WOOD END

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:: Flamstead
National Grid Reference:: TL 05536 14011

Details

FLAMSTEAD LITTLE WOOD END TL 01 SE 4/36 Three barns and covered - gateway adjacent at Hill Farm (45M to E of house) GV II

Three barns and a covered gateway. Hay Barn at S early C17, Straw Barn at N mid C17, Wood Barn in middle late C17 with Gateway to N dated 'SL WL 1820 JC' on tie beam. Timber frame on low red brick sills, dark weatherboarded with steep pitched roofs now covered in slates except Hay Barn in corrugated iron. An L-shaped range of tall unaisled barns facing into yard on W with a gateway between the middle and north barns. Straw Barn at N of 4 bays with a gabled W porch to 2nd bay from N and opposed double doors. Swept jowled bay posts, unjowled mid-bay posts. Long curved braces to tie-beams. Straight inclined queen-posts to single purlins (no collars) where principal rafter reduced in section. 2 bays Gateway with S bay open and simple purlin roof. Wood Barn immediately to S of gateway of 3 bays with gabled W porch to middle bay. Cyma shaped jowls to posts, unjowled mid-bay posts in end bays, long curved braces to tie-beams, convex curved queen-posts to support single purlin in each slope (no collars). Simple splayed scarf joint to purlin at mid-bay. Series of numbered joints noticeable. Hay Barn extends to W from S end of Wood Barn and pre-dates it. 4-bays with gabled N porch to 2nd bay from W. Jowled bay-posts, unjowled mid-bay posts, mid-height rail jointed in-line. Long curved braces to cambered tie-beams. Single heavy purlin to each slope. Slightly convex-curved queen-posts support purlin (no collars). Square-butted scarf joints. Winnowing door to rear of porch-bay. Pitching doors at rear in other 3 bays. W end internally plastered to half height as if for storing grain.

Listing NGR: TL0553614011

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 157812
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.