Nicoll Farm House
NICOLL FARM HOUSE, 34, ALLUM LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174074
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Nicoll Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- NICOLL FARM HOUSE, 34, ALLUM LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12258/01
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174074
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Nicoll Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- NICOLL FARM HOUSE, 34, ALLUM 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:
- NICOLL FARM HOUSE, 34, ALLUM LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Hertsmere (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elstree and Borehamwood
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ1841396014
Details
TQ 19 NE
7/154
20.7.82
ELSTREE
ALLUM LANE
(North side)
Elstree
No. 34 (Nicoll Farm House)
GV
II
House. c.1500, c,1600 crosswing, altered mid C17. Early and mid C18
extension, alteration and refronting. C19 and C20 additions. Timber
frame originally. Brick walls, whitewashed to front, some
weatherboarding. Tiled roof. Originally 3 bays with 2-bay open hall,
parlour crosswing added to right. Now 2 storeys. Entrance to far left of
original house with later hipped roofed porch. Early C18 1 bay kitchen
extension to left and 2 bays of house brick fronted in early C18 with
plat band over first floor and parapet. Timber casements with segmental
heads. C17 cross axial ridge stack to left of original house, 3 diagonal
shafts. Later C18 brick front to right bay of hall and parlour wing.
Plat band and parapet. Ground floor casements and C19 French windows. 2
first floor sashes. Right return of parlour wing has original English
bond external stack partly hidden by C19 addition with lower roof. Left
return: weatherboarded first floor, half hip to roof. C20 rear extension
to left. Rear gable to parlour wing. External C18 stack to rear of hall.
Ground floor casements. First floor horizontal sliding sashes. Interior:
only soot blackened hall roof with clasped purlins and wind braces
remains from c.1500. Clasped purlin roof to wing. Mid C17 floor inserted
on stopped ovolo moulded beams. Mid C19 wall extends forward from front
dividing garden from farmyard. Attached brick piers with ball finials
and gates. (RCHM Typescript)
Listing NGR: TQ1841396014
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164204
- 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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