Farmhouse at Rooks Nest Farm
FARMHOUSE AT ROOKS NEST FARM, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176006
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Farmhouse at Rooks Nest Farm
- Statutory Address:
- FARMHOUSE AT ROOKS NEST FARM, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176006
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Farmhouse at Rooks Nest Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARMHOUSE AT ROOKS NEST FARM, HIGH STREET
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:
- FARMHOUSE AT ROOKS NEST FARM, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Walkern
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 28687 25875
Details
TL 2825 WALKERN Finches End HIGH STREET (west side)
8/3 Farmhouse at Rooks Nest Farm 20.10.52 (formerly listed as Rooks Nest Farmhouse)
GV II*
House. Mid Cl7 front range; rear wing later, possibly 1701; brewhouse wing at NE C19. Red brick, in English-bond in front range. N side of rear wing timber framed and jettied with brick infill, coursed below but herring-bone pattern above line of former lean-to roof. Steep old red tile roofs. Originally a 2 storeys and attic, cruciform, lobby-entry, central chimney plan house (probably with earlier service wing to rear). Hall on S and parlour on N with a 2-storeys porch balancing the rear stair turret on opposite sides of the large central chimney. Rear wing a SW of 2 storeys has a brick inscribed 'RC 1701' in S wall. This has a large formerly external chimney in the middle of its N side, where the later 4-bay brewhouse projects to N. Symmetrical E front with massive central chimney with 4 diagonal square shafts, gabled orch with 3-light plastered brick mullioned window with brick label over wide square-headed chamfered doorway. 3-panel door with leaded fanlight. A 4-light mullioned and transomed leaded casement window on each side of porch on each floor. Chamfered brick plinth and brick corbels at ends of front eaves. 3-light mullioned timber windows to attic and 2 floors in S gable, recessed under segmental arches. Flush wooden casement windows to rear wing. Interior has chamfered cross-beams, scratch moulded panelling with upper lozenge-carved panels to stair enclosure, 4-centred fireplaces in S room and room over, and plastered fireplace with fluted C18 cast iron basket grate in chamber over N room. Clasped purlin roof with curved wind braces exposed in stair turret. Staircase has elabor- ately moulded square finials and splat balusters at landings. (RCHM (1911) 225: VCH (1912) 151: Pevsner (1977) 373: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL2868725875
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159702
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 151
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 373
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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