ADAMS FARM HOUSE

ADAMS FARM HOUSE, HUNSDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176788
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-1978
List Entry Name:: ADAMS FARM HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ADAMS FARM HOUSE, HUNSDON ROAD

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Date:: 2001-08-20
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176788
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-1978
List Entry Name:: ADAMS FARM HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ADAMS FARM HOUSE, HUNSDON ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ADAMS FARM HOUSE, HUNSDON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Widford
National Grid Reference:: TL 41985 15702

Details

TL 4115 WIDFORD HUNSDON ROAD (east side) ) Widford village

5/13 Adam's Farm house

8.3.78

GV II

House. Late C16 incorporating at the S end the service end of an earlier jettied house at right angles to the road, parallel rear range C17; extended, plastered and given small paned Gothick casements in early C19, renewed with modern pargetting c1980. Timberframed, plastered with gabled red tiled roofs. Front wall faced in early C19 brick plastered and single storey C19 extension in SW angle has a hipped roof. A 2 storeys, 3 windows house facing W with modern panelled pargetting and central door. Upper windows wooden casements with Gothick tracery in the heads and small panes. 2 5-sided bow windows with similar casements linked by a lean-to tiled roof continuous over the modern plank door with carved consoles as brackets, large internal gable chimney axial at S and external gable chimney with tiled offset at N. Interior evidence that this front was formerly jettied. Parallel 2 storeys rear wing has large central chimney with 4 flues in line across the ridge. Interior has exposed structural timbers, close studding with tension braces in front range, jowled posts and curved braces to tie beams. Rebated doorpost and door head survives in S part from buttery and pantry twin doors of older side-jettied house the front wall and the front half of one bay of which survives. Probably the first house of the Adam family which leased the farm called Widfordbury in 1548 (HLHS (1979) 300. A most interesting timberframed house with exposed structure of several periods. Part of a picturesque farm group in this part of the village Conservation Area.

Listing NGR: TL4198515702

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Legacy System number:: 160022
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.