Castle Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns to West and North West
CASTLE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARNS TO WEST AND NORTH WEST, LOWER LUTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175964
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns to West and North West
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARNS TO WEST AND NORTH WEST, LOWER LUTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175964
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns to West and North West
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARNS TO WEST AND NORTH WEST, LOWER LUTON ROAD
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:
- CASTLE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARNS TO WEST AND NORTH WEST, LOWER LUTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wheathampstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 15778 14751
Details
TL 11 SE WHEATHAMPSTEAD LOWER LUTON ROAD (south side)
6/459 Castle Farmhouse and adjoining barns to W and NW.
GV II
Farmhouse. Mid-late C17. C18 red brick ground floor, upper floor in C20 roughcast and half timber. Steep pitched plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attics. Ridge has central red brick stack with 4 joined shafts. Lobby entrance plan, door formerly on E side. Part of original staircase behind stack remains on 1st floor. Externally it retains small ground and 1st floor 2-light casements with diamond mullions. C20 casements either side and to front elevation. Later C17 single storey outbuilding adjoins on S side. Adjoining this on the W is a C17-18 single storey timber frame barn with weatherboarding and plain tile roof. 3 bays. Brick and flint base. Adjoining on NW is a C18 barn with red brick walling and weatherboarded gables. Plain tile clasped purlin roof.
Listing NGR: TL1577814751
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164008
- 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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