Fanshaws Farmhouse

FANSHAWS FARMHOUSE, BRICKENDON GREEN

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1176893
Date first listed:
24-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:
Fanshaws Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
FANSHAWS FARMHOUSE, BRICKENDON GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1176893
Date first listed:
24-Nov-1966
Date of most recent amendment:
20-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
Fanshaws Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
FANSHAWS FARMHOUSE, BRICKENDON GREEN

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FANSHAWS FARMHOUSE, BRICKENDON GREEN

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Brickendon Liberty
National Grid Reference:
TL 32143 07933

Details

TL 30 NW BRICKENDON LIBERTY BRICKENDON GREEN (North side)

3/34 Fanshaws Farmhouse 24.11.66 (formerly listed as Fanshaw's Farmhouse and outbuildings) GV II

Farmhouse. C16 or early C17. Timber frame on projecting plastered sill, roughcast with basketwork pargetting. Steep old red tile roofs. Dark weatherboard W gable to lower W part. 2-storeys, 2 windows wide, 2-cells plan house, set back a little from road, facing S, with 1½-storeys, 2 windows wide, W part. This has flush-box sash windows with small panes, but these have been replaced by metal 3-lights casements in main house which also has a 4-panels, half-glazed central door, a very large red brick chimney near the W end of the ridge and an external E gable chimney. Interior: cased beams in ceilings at ground floor rooms, (and cased wall post). C18 cupboard. Modern fireplace. Panelling in E room to one side. C19 early hob grate. Doors with old strap hinges. Extension has fireplace on splay. Fairly good quality but timbers covered.

Listing NGR: TL3214307933

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
160641
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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