Topstreet Farmhouse
TOPSTREET FARMHOUSE, 28, CRABTREE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172891
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Topstreet Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TOPSTREET FARMHOUSE, 28, CRABTREE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172891
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Topstreet Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOPSTREET FARMHOUSE, 28, CRABTREE LANE
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:
- TOPSTREET FARMHOUSE, 28, CRABTREE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harpenden Town
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14071 13808
Details
TL 11 SW HARPENDEN CRABTREE LANE (south side) HARPENDEN
5/41 No 28 (Topstreet Farmhouse) 9.5.78
II
Farmhouse, now house. C16 timber frame. Englarged at rear in C18 to form a double-pile house. Altered in late C19, when the elevations were stuccoed. Plain tile roofs. 2 storeys. Entrance elevation has the former cross wing on the left with exposed framing. Pargetting to panels. Central 2-storey Victorian canted bay with leaded casements, possibly a copy of the original. To either side on ground and 1st floors are small 2-light mullioned casements, those of upper floor with original oak frames. Angular jowles to the corner posts. Door on right has mid-C18 bracketed hood with heavy scroll brackets. Right of door is a 3-light segmental-headed casement, and this part was formerly the hall. To right of the cross wing is a massive ridge chimney stack; C16 below, but with C17 multiple joined shafts and narrow brick bands at the top; built up in late C19. Documentary evidence (Herts Genealogy, p 304) suggests that William Hunt was the owner in 1558. This may be when the cross wing and chimney stack were added to the apparently already existing hall range.
Listing NGR: TL1407113808
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163576
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
William Briggs Hertfordshire Genealogist and Antiquary, (1895), 304
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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