Farmhouse at Crumps Farm
FARMHOUSE AT CRUMPS FARM, WEST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220694
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Farmhouse at Crumps Farm
- Statutory Address:
- FARMHOUSE AT CRUMPS FARM, WEST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220694
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Farmhouse at Crumps Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARMHOUSE AT CRUMPS FARM, WEST 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:
- FARMHOUSE AT CRUMPS FARM, WEST ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- High Wych
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 46612 15433
Details
TL 41 NE HIGH WYCH WEST ROAD (north side)
4/66 Farmhouse at Crumps Farm (formerly listed as Crumps) 22.2.67
- II House. "IKA 1628" on recessed oval plaster panel, over front door. Large early C17 L-plan, timberframed farmhouse facing W. 2 storeys and attics. Altered and W and S faces and E gable cased in red brick in early C18. Other walls plastered. Steep old red tile roofs with slate courses at eaves. Hipped at angle but half-hipped at N and E. 2 storeys service wing and staircase in angle of L, and C17 large single storey timberframed and plastered brewhouse or kitchen at N end, now used as a lobby. Single storey lean-to on E with hipped slate and tile roof. Compact rectangular plan with W entrance lobby beside central chimneystack in middle of W wing. Stair lobby on E side of central stack. Hall to N of stack has large fireplace, cross- beam and exposed joists all chamfered and stopped. Service rooms open out of hall on N (kitchen) and E (dairy and store rooms). Corner room to S of stack has cross beam in ceiling. This parlour has blocked door in framed partition on E side formerly connecting with E parlour which occupies Ground floor of E wing. Similar chamfered and stopped ceiling cross-beam N-S and corner fireplace at NE corner of room. Dado to stair of C17 small scratch-moulded panelling. Axial ceiling beams on 1st floor and 2 early C17 battened plank doors with moulded edges in W wing. Stair lit by 3-light, late C17, mullioned and transomed window and contemporary 1-light window with leaded glazing in iron casement lights attic from N gable of W range. W front in early C18 red brick with plinth, raised floor band, oval brick frame to older date panel, small square window with pegged wooden frame and diamond lattice over date panel, and segmental window arches incorporating darker brick headers. The windows have been widened slightly to accommodate C19 sash windows, and a four and a half inch brick arch has been inserted under the older arch. Symmetrical W front with central door flanked by 2 windows. 2 windows on S front and 1 window on each floor on E gable end. (RCHM (1911) 204: VCH III (1912) 334).
Listing NGR: TL4661215433
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394419
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 334
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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