Old Hill Farm
OLD HILL FARM, 3/5, LOWER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176450
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Old Hill Farm
- Statutory Address:
- OLD HILL FARM, 3/5, LOWER ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-09-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/04749/18
- Rights:
- © Mr Gary C. Churchman. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176450
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Old Hill Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD HILL FARM, 3/5, LOWER 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:
- OLD HILL FARM, 3/5, LOWER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- King's Walden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL1549322140
Details
TL 12 SE
4/30
16.11.79
KINGS WALDEN
LOWER ROAD
(East side)
Breachwood Green
Nos. 3/5 (Old Hill Farm)
II
House. C17 hall range formerly jettied to front; W crosswing mid/later
C17; C18 brick underbuilding of jetty casing of ground floor of wing and
E end and rear extension to wing. Timber frame exposed on 1st floor, red
brick ground floor and rear part of wing, remains of roughcast to E end.
Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys L-shaped house facing N. 2-bays
hall range is of 2 unequal structural bays with axial floor beams,
former continuous front jetty, entrance now into E side of larger W bay
which has a large formerly external W gable chimney, and rear door
opposite. Trimming for stair in NW corner of smaller E bay. Second
chimney to serve wing added onto back of W stack and crosswing of one
large bay built to W without a jetty and leaving space in front and to
rear of joint stack for lobby-entry? and stair? N front has 3 windows
to each floor. 3-lights flush casement windows with divided panes. Door
in middle of hall range. Cruciform large chimney above roof. Interior
has exposed structural timbers with hall range having jowled posts,
straight tension-braces to walls, axial floor beams. Crosswing has
jowled posts, the same long tension braces to walls, and clasped-purlin
roof on gable truss with collar.
Listing NGR: TL1549322140
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162822
- 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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