Dyes Farmhouse
DYES FARMHOUSE, DYES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176520
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dyes Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DYES FARMHOUSE, DYES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176520
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dyes Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DYES FARMHOUSE, DYES LANE
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:
- DYES FARMHOUSE, DYES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Langley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 21781 23258
Details
TL 22 SW LANGLEY DYES LANE
5/47 Dyes Farmhouse
GV II*
House. Early C17, C20 rear wing. Timber frame with exposed close-studding on flint and brick plinth with plastered infill. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys and attics house facing S with broad crosswing at E and 2-storeys jettied gabled porch. Single-storey C20 short rear wing at NW. Large internal stack a quarter from W end with stair rising out of lobby entrance on S of stack, oven projecting from N jamb of large open fireplace in W end room, probably a kitchen. Longer hall bay to E of stack with 2 doors into the 2-bays E crosswing with 2 rooms on each floor. S front has 4 windows to each floor, small attic window in gabled crosswing, porch with window to room over and battened door off-centre between jowled brackets. Sunk spandrel and chip-carved roundels on lintel. Flush casement windows with small panes. Large chimney with deep sunk panel between 2 rectangular shafts. Interior has chamfered axial ceiling beams and squared joists. Jowled posts with rounded chin, with curved tension bracing in some partitions from post but also from middle bay-post of crosswing. Structurally the chimney and entrance stands in a narrow bay, the hall is an unusually long bay. Crosswing has 2 bays. Clasped-purlin roof on collars visible in attics with long curved arched wind-braces to eachbay except chimney bay. Fireplace to chamber over hall has cambered lintel chamfered and stopped. Face halved bladed scarf joint in wallplate. A little-altered example of a large early C17 farmhouse.
Listing NGR: TL2178123258
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162839
- 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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