Entrance Barn at Rent Street Barns
ENTRANCE BARN AT RENT STREET BARNS, CHIPPERFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249455
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Barn at Rent Street Barns
- Statutory Address:
- ENTRANCE BARN AT RENT STREET BARNS, CHIPPERFIELD ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-10-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/00439/27
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249455
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Barn at Rent Street Barns
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENTRANCE BARN AT RENT STREET BARNS, CHIPPERFIELD 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:
- ENTRANCE BARN AT RENT STREET BARNS, CHIPPERFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bovingdon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 02152 03227
Details
BOVINGDON CHIPPERFIELD ROAD TL 00 SW (South side) 6/14 Entrance barn at - Rent Street Barns
GV II
Barn, now also serving as a gatehouse. C16 with alterations. Timber frame dark weatherboarded with steep old red tile roof, with chevron pattern of darker tiles. 4-bays with gabled porch to road on N in 2nd bay from W. Opposed double doorways now serve carriageway to courtyard of house. Sympathetic W extension for a dwelling. Single-storey C18 lower stable attached at SE dark weatherboarded with steep old red tile roof. Barn has heavy jowled posts and curved braces to wallplates and staggered mid-height rail. Central post in gable. Original clasped purlin roof on jowled posts, collar and struts, to porch. Main roof adapted to queen-post form in early C19. (Roberts(1975)no. 14: Pevsner(1977)107).
Listing NGR: TL0215203227
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431585
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Roberts, E, The Bovingdon Survey, ()
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 107
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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