Staples Farmhouse
Staples Farmhouse, Raffin Green Lane, SG3 6RN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1175159
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Staples Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- Staples Farmhouse, Raffin Green Lane, SG3 6RN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1175159
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Staples Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- Staples Farmhouse, Raffin Green Lane, SG3 6RN
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:
- Staples Farmhouse, Raffin Green Lane, SG3 6RN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL2768919736
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 September 2024 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
TL 21 NE
5/1
ASTON
RAFFIN GREEN LANE (east side)
Staples Farmhouse
(Formerly listed as Staples Cottage, previously listed as Staples)
24.11.66
GV
II*
House. Late C16, West end and hall range rebuilt C17, extensions to East and North later C19, and North lean-to and conservatory c1960. Timber frame on red brick sill (renewed), plastered with panelled fan-pargetting. Steep old red tile roofs.
Originally a T-shaped house with C16 two-storeys two-bay crosswing at South and hall range, rebuilt in early C17 as two-storeys, projecting to North with 1 m wide passage at South end. Also a C17 one and a half storeys, one-bay service room added at West end of crosswing (now entrance hall) with external gable chimney. Large external East gable chimney with crow steps at East end of larger bay of South crosswing. Hall range extended a bay to North and then by a lower two-storeys range. North side of crosswing partitioned as passage in timber framing - possibly for an entrance on the East. Three-light and four-light hardwood mullioned windows with slim metal casements.
South front has a gabled dormer in the one and a half storeys West part with heavy battened old oak door up three steps with flat hood on small shaped brackets. Two windows to each floor of crosswing. Hardwood mullioned windows with horizontal proportions. Large red brick chimney with axial flues and crow-step decoration. Shallow catslide roof to East side extension.
An impressive and picturesque timber framed house clearly showing the stages in its construction.
Listing NGR: TL2768919736
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159577
- 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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