RED COW FARMHOUSE

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:: RED COW FARMHOUSE, DUNSTABLE ROAD (A5))

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Official list entry

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))

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: RED COW FARMHOUSE, DUNSTABLE ROAD (A5))

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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

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Legacy System number:: 157969
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.