Church Farmhouse and Stables
CHURCH FARMHOUSE AND STABLES, PIPERS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1173686
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse and Stables
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE AND STABLES, PIPERS HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1173686
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse and Stables
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE AND STABLES, PIPERS HILL
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:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE AND STABLES, PIPERS HILL
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 02826 11182
Details
GREAT GADDESDEN PIPERS HILL, TL 01 SW (North side) 3/116 Church Farmhouse 26.1.67 ard Stables
GV II*
Farmhouse and attached stables. C15/C16 open hall house, C16 N part, C18 brick scullery and stable at NE, renovated and brick casing to front and shortened S end in mid C19 for Ashridge Estate. Timber frame, roughcast at rear, dark weatherboarding to N gable, C18 red brick to stable range, darker C19 red brick casing to house. Steep old red tile roofs. A tall 2-storeys, cellar and attic house facing E with lower 2 storeys stable range running E from its N end. 5 windows long house with transomed casement windows with cambered arches, gabled porch to 6-panel flush-beaded door in S part. Canted bay window on S end. 5-windows long stable range faces S and has square small recesses to the upper floor (hay loft). Older S part of house consists of 2½ bays of structure formerly extending further to S. This is a former open hall with queen-strut and collar trusses to a smoke-blackened clasped-purlin roof with curved wind-braces and curved braces supporting the collar from the queen-struts of each truss. Wattle-and-daub infill remains in closed truss. Abutting on the N is a 2-bays rather later structure with clasped-purlin roof, curved wind-braces and flat rafters. 1st floor carried in S part on deeply-moulded cross-beams with double cavetto. Very large central chimney emerges through front slope of roof next to ridge. Oak Jacobean style stair of mid C19. Double-height scullery at W end of stable range.
Listing NGR: TL0282811183
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157895
- 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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