Farm Buildings at Bottom Farm
FARM BUILDINGS AT BOTTOM FARM, SWING GATE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249631
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Farm Buildings at Bottom Farm
- Statutory Address:
- FARM BUILDINGS AT BOTTOM FARM, SWING GATE LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00504/27
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249631
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Farm Buildings at Bottom Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARM BUILDINGS AT BOTTOM FARM, SWING GATE LANE
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:
- FARM BUILDINGS AT BOTTOM FARM, SWING GATE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Berkhamsted
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 99988 06089
Details
1. SWING GATE LANE (South Side) 839 Farm Buildings at SP 90 NE Bottom Farm 3/240
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2. Farm buildings, N range now in domestic use. C16 barn in W range incorporating an older N bay, C18 traphouse with loft at S end and 2-bay C19 open shed at N end. C19 elevated granary at E end of N range which has C17/C18 parts linked and adapted to domestic use in 1980s. Timber frames on brick sills, dark weatherboarded with steep old red tile roofs. A picturesque L-shaped group of farm buildings to W of house. The 4-bay barn faces W with a gabled projecting porch in the 2nd bay from S and a large winnowing door opposite on E and rear outshuts and stables under catslide roofs. Jowled posts with mid-height rails in-line and unjowled wallposts at mid-bay. Heavy straight braces to tie beams and to wallplates. 2 purlins to each slope of clasped purlin roof, the upper clasped by a collar and the lower by quadrant-curved inclined queen-posts. Older N bay had a single-purlin with wind braces but was altered to 2 butt-purlins. Straight wind braces to lower purlins. Squint-butted scarf joint in wall plate. Old elm boards on rear of barn survive protected by outshuts. Square single-storey C19 granary raised high on 2 parallel brick walls has a pyramidial roof, small window in middle of each side and door central at E reached by ladder. Interior has a central N-S tie-beam with inclined queen-posts to purlin roof with angle rafters bearing on ties across the corners with pegged tenons. Long diagonal braces in walls.
Listing NGR: SP9998806089
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355492
- 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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