Southings Farmhouse
SOUTHINGS FARMHOUSE, CLEMENTS END ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173054
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Southings Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTHINGS FARMHOUSE, CLEMENTS END ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173054
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Southings Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTHINGS FARMHOUSE, CLEMENTS END 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:
- SOUTHINGS FARMHOUSE, CLEMENTS END ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Gaddesden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 03834 13823
Details
GREAT GADDESDEN CLEMENTS END ROAD TL 01 SW (West side) Ballingdon Bottom
3/74 Southings Farmhouse 26.1.67 (formerly listed as Southings Farmhouse, Gaddesden Row)
GV II
Farmhouse. C16 or earlier former open hall house, C17 chimney inserted in cross-passage and floor in hall, brick cased in C18, altered and extended on N in C19. Timber frame exposed only on 1st floor on S, infill panels and casing to house in red brick, sandier on S. Steep old red tile roofs. An irregular, 2-storeys house, facing S, enclosing the N side of the farmyard. A large 3-cells hall-house with a single long bay to the hall, unheated parlour with cellar under on W, very wide cross-passage in its own structural bay on E, and originally axially divided service rooms in E end bay beyond. Adapted to lobby-entry plan by building back-to-back fireplaces in stack occupying only W half of former cross-passage, and throwing rest into single space with partitions around former service rooms removed. S front has irregular fenestration, the upper floor being lit by small casement windows and 3 swept dormers. 4 windows to ground floor. Door now into E part of cross-passage, with garden door opposite to N. Cross-passage spanned by 2 heavy chamfered beams framed into cross-beams enclosing a central space occupied by C17 chimney but possibly designed for a late C16 timber framed chimney replaced in C17. Interior has exposed framing with wide-spaced studs, framing for blocked windows on upper floor of E bay, curved tension braces in walls, jowled posts, cambered tie-beams, clasped-purlin roof with long curved wind-braces, and square-butted scarf joint in wallplate. Floor over hall carried on chamfered axial beam jointed to chamfered cross-beams with mason-mitred junction of chamfers. Large hall fireplace has been narrowed. Chamfered lintel and oven formerly on N flank.
Listing NGR: TL0383413823
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157855
- 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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