Red Cow Farmhouse
RED COW FARMHOUSE, DUNSTABLE ROAD (A5))
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174200
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Red Cow Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- RED COW FARMHOUSE, DUNSTABLE ROAD (A5))
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174200
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Red Cow Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- RED COW FARMHOUSE, DUNSTABLE ROAD (A5))
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:
- RED COW FARMHOUSE, DUNSTABLE ROAD (A5))
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 05238 17636
Details
MARKYATE DUNSTABLE ROAD (A5) TL 01 NE (East side) 2/190 Red Cow Farmhouse 16.1.84
GV II
Farmhouse. C17, rear kitchen wing at NW and 2-storeys rear outshut C18, Single-storey rear lean-to at NE C19. Timber frame with roughcast front and stucco plinth, red brick in Flemish-bond at rear, tarred brick on E gable end. Steep old red tile roofs, main range hipped at E. A 2-storeys, 3-units, internal-chimney, lobby entry plan house facing S, with 2-storeys rear outshut providing passages on each floor, and 2-storeys rear kitchen wing at NW. Large internal chimney a third from W end, and internal E gable stack. Kitchen wing has large fireplaces at N gable end. S front assymetrical. 4 windows on each floor with entrance between middle two. Flush-box sashes with 6/6 panes and segmental heads to ground floor. 6-panels flush-beaded door in heavy moulded frame with open triangular hood on shaped brackets. Interior has added passage serving the original three front rooms, also containing the staircase at E end presumably replacing a stair to rear of main chimney. On ground floor main chimney only served a fireplace for the middle room. NE corner fireplace later provided in W room. Axial chamfered and stopped beams to E of stack but crossbeam in W room set nearer W wall as if this bay had been shortened. 2 plank doors and an C18 panelled screen. Farm buildings attached at N not of special interest.
Listing NGR: TL0523817636
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157969
- 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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