Hill and Coles Farmhouse
HILL AND COLES FARMHOUSE, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172849
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hill and Coles Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HILL AND COLES FARMHOUSE, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172849
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hill and Coles Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILL AND COLES FARMHOUSE, LONDON 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:
- HILL AND COLES FARMHOUSE, LONDON ROAD
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 08934 15563
Details
FLAMSTEAD LONDON ROAD TL 01 NE (North side) 2/38 Hill and Coles Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse. Early C17 or earlier, false front with parapet and verandah early C19, alterations early C20. Timber frame roughcast with brick casing to W gable end and E bay. Steep old red tile roofs. A large L-shaped low 2-storeys house facing S with long lower rear service wing at NW. 3-windows S front with 5-bays timber verandah, central half- glazed flush-beaded door in middle, French doors to LH and tall window to RH. 4-lights:2-lights:3-lights flush casement windows to 1st floor now with small-pane steel casements. E bay carried down as catslide-roofed front outshut. Very large 4-flues chimney on rear wall at junction with NW wing. The E slope of the rear wing roof has been flattened and the wallhead raised to insert windows at 1st floor level. Rear outshut to main range with stair in tower with swept roof in angle of wings. Large ground floor to E of entrance hall has broad axial beam with hollow chamfer topped by a large roll-moulding. Drawing Room to W of entrance has exotic carved Javanese (?) fire surround, and wide flat cross-beam, chamfered with hollow stops. Jacobean oak arcaded overmantle re-used with scratch-moulded panelling in partition beside sink in S room of rear wing. Fluted pilasters between depressed round arches with cusped soffits, carved spandrels, and fluted impost pilasters. Jowled posts, clasped-purlin roofs, unjowled mid-bay post by stair.
Listing NGR: TL0893415563
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157814
- 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.
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