Roe End Farmhouse
ROE END FARMHOUSE, ROE END LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174182
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Roe End Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROE END FARMHOUSE, ROE END LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174182
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Roe End Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROE END FARMHOUSE, ROE END 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:
- ROE END FARMHOUSE, ROE END LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Markyate
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 04748 15793
Details
MARKYATE ROE END LANE TL 01 NW (North side) 1/186 Roe End Farmhouse -
GV II
Farmhouse. Late C16, C17 E crosswing and gabled rear extension, C19 front and rear outshut, 1880 brick rear extension to crosswing and large E parlour block, C20 glazed porch. Timber frame, red brick casing, plum brick E block and rear extension to E crosswing. Steep old red tile roofs, hipped E block. A 2-storeys, 3-unit, lobby-entry plan house facing S, with large internal chimney next gabled, taller E crosswing projecting to front, and gabled rear service wing behind chimney. C19 rear outshut, 2-storeys gabled rear extension to crosswing with higher ceiling heights, and tall 2-storeys E block at higher level on E end. S font irregular, brick front to older W part has 2 windows on each floor, 3-light flush casements with small panes and cambered arches to ground floor. Very large square chimney. Glazed single-storey porch to former lobby entry. Higher gabled crosswing with recessed sash window with 3/3 panes on 1st floor. Porch extends across front. Higher hipped E block in plum brick has large external projecting chimney in middle of S side flanked by gabled 1st floor windows with narrow recessed sash windows with 2/2 panes in raised red brick surrounds. Brick labels to 2 tall narrow sash windows on ground floor. Large canted bay on E end of this block with sash window of 3/3 panes on 1st floor. Interior has exposed framework of rear wall exposed for full height, jowled posts, mortices for braces to tie-beams, clasped-purlin roof on collar-and-queen-strut trusses with straight wind-braces. Heavy straight braces in wall. Squint-butted scarf joint in wallplate. Remains of wall painting on faces of beams across each end of former middle room on W of chimney, with cellar under. White foliate design on reddish ground. Axial chamfered beams with hollow stops. Panelled C18 corner cupboard against stub of cross partition on W repeated by cut sill-plate and holes for wattle and daub infill between mortices for studs. Undivided W end room suggests this was originally the upper-end and that the C17 E crosswing replaced the original service-bay. Very high room on ground floor of E block with bedroom over partly in roof. Fireplace with corner blocks and paterae in office to rear of E crosswing. Dairy in ground floor of C17 rear extension.
Listing NGR: TL0474815793
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157965
- 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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