Dunkirk Farmhouse
DUNKIRK FARMHOUSE, QUEENS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268789
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Dunkirk Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DUNKIRK FARMHOUSE, QUEENS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268789
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Dunkirk Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUNKIRK FARMHOUSE, QUEENS 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:
- DUNKIRK FARMHOUSE, QUEENS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hertford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 32728 11620
Details
HERTFORD
TL3211 QUEEN'S ROAD
817-1/22/174 (South side)
02/05/90 Dunkirk Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse, now house. Late C16 or early C17 incorporating some
earlier elements; altered C18 and C19; restored 1989-90.
Timber-frame with wattle and daub infill (replaced) on brick
plinth; with pargeted late C20 rendered cladding. Plain tile
roof. Brick stacks. Outshut has weatherboard return and Welsh
slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with partial attic. Three-and-a-half cells
with entrance lobby and stair half-cell between right-hand
cells; side outshut addition on right. Part-glazed 4-panel
door under bracketed pent tile canopy. Former door to outshut
now a window. Windows are late C20 sashes having 12-pane upper
sashes and 3-pane lower sashes; 3 to ground floor, 4 above,
with paired small 1-light windows between two 1st-floor,
left-hand windows. Gabled dormer with 6-pane top-hinged
casement to entrance bay. External end stacks, that on right
rebuilt, and ridge stack between left cells, all having
diagonally set flues.
INTERIOR: timber-frame exposed, with some timbers C19 or C20
replacements. Original partition walls survive, rising up to
roof, except for that between 2nd cell and entrance half cell;
chamfered spine-beams with bar-and-cyma and lambs tongue
stops; on 1st floor, chamfered doorways, some old doors and
elliptically-arched fireplace in left room; in roof collared
tie-beam trusses with studs and infill, old rafters, clasped
purlins, and straight wind-braces. The stair is late C18 early
C19, having close string, columnar newel, and stick balusters.
Outshut has stone flag floor and 2nd half C19 range.
HISTORIAL NOTE: during the course of restoration work a mid
C16 farthing was found below the floor of the left-hand
ground-floor room, and an iron casement with diagonal-leading
behind the rear wall; there was formerly a pump and long stone
sink in the outshut.
Dunkirk Farmhouse North Side, adjoining to rear, is now a
separate residence and is not of special interest.
Listing NGR: TL3272811620
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461462
- 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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