CHURCH FARMHOUSE AND STABLES

CHURCH FARMHOUSE AND STABLES, PIPERS HILL

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

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

User submitted image — Uploaded by Helen C-F This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 1999-10-13
Reference:: IOE01/01102/31
Rights:: © Mr Ronald Brown. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.