Farm Building to the North West of Burge End Farmhouse

FARM BUILDING TO THE NORTH WEST OF BURGE END FARMHOUSE, BURGE END LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1250685
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:
Farm Building to the North West of Burge End Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
FARM BUILDING TO THE NORTH WEST OF BURGE END FARMHOUSE, BURGE END LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1250685
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:
Farm Building to the North West of Burge End Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
FARM BUILDING TO THE NORTH WEST OF BURGE END FARMHOUSE, BURGE END 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
FARM BUILDING TO THE NORTH WEST OF BURGE END FARMHOUSE, BURGE END LANE

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Pirton
National Grid Reference:
TL 14360 32339

Details

SCHEDULE

The following building shall be added to the list:-

PIRTON BURGE END LANE, Burge End TL13SW (east side)

1/10000 Farm outbuilding to the north- west of Burge End Farmhouse

- II

Farm outbuilding. Late C17, with C18 and C19 alterations. Weather-boarded timber-frame, set on a low brick cill, with sections of brick walling at south end. Corrugated metal roof covering. 6-bay structure aligned north-south, with added lean-to structure on the east side wall, possibly replacing an earlier structure, the panels of the enclosed wall with wattle and plaster infill. Boarded partitions separate the 2 centre bays from 2-bay north and south sections. The frame has jowled wall posts and unjowled mid-bay posts, and substantial studs interrupted by mid rails and tension bracing. East side wall with former double doorway to centre, now partially infilled, and aligned doorways at south end from lean-to offshut into barn body. Posts within offshut have empty mortices on east faces. Roof structure of single clasped purlin type, and with 4 queen-strut roof trusses, including truss 1 to north gable, all with braces to wall posts, which are straight except those to truss 4, which are curved. Trusses 2, 6 and 7 have collar beams, and vertical studs infilling the truss apex. Truss 6 has fragments of plastered wattle infill. Truss 5 has a severed tie beam, and a replacement truss introduced behind. The south-east gable has down-braces from the jowl posts to the mid-rail. There is a taking-in door to the south gable and a doorway in the north gable. A multi-phase timber-framed building in which the frame is substantially complete, and which forms an important component of a farmstead group which includes Burge End Farmhouse (qv).

Listing NGR: TL1436032339

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
433141
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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