Bayfordbury Park Farmhouse
BAYFORDBURY PARK FARMHOUSE, LOWER HATFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176715
- Date first listed:
- 20-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bayfordbury Park Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BAYFORDBURY PARK FARMHOUSE, LOWER HATFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176715
- Date first listed:
- 20-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bayfordbury Park Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAYFORDBURY PARK FARMHOUSE, LOWER HATFIELD 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:
- BAYFORDBURY PARK FARMHOUSE, LOWER HATFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bayford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 31088 10991
Details
TL 31 SW BAYFORD LOWER HATFIELD ROAD (North side)
1/22 Bayfordbury Park - Farmhouse
GV II
Manor house, now a farmhouse. C16, relegated to farmhouse c.1762 when Bayfordbury built to S. Alterations, brick front and E wing late C19. Timber frame front cased in red brick in Flemish-bond now painted, NW wing roughcast. Steep old red tile roofs with bellcast and wide painted eaves soffit. 2 storeys and cellar, 3-cells, internal-chimney plan house at rear of farmstead, facing S, with chimney a third from W end, rear wing at NW, former E gable chimney now enclosed in 1½-storeys C19 crosswing. S front has 6 lst-floor windows: 5 mullioned, 3-lights, stucco windows and 2-lights window to crosswing. Gabled porch with chamfered 4-centred arched entrance next crosswing with a ¾ glazed door. Canted bay window each side of porch and small cast-iron framed windows elsewhere to front. NW rear wing has N gable chimney and exposed jowled corner-post. Interior of older part has sloping floor and wide boards on 1st floor. 2-panel doors with H-hinges. On ground floor ceiling cornices and plank doors with old iron strap hinges. Drawing of house in edge of estate map of 1758 in HRO shows close-studding exposed on 1st floor. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3108810991
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160630
- 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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