Barn at Rumballs Farm
BARN AT RUMBALLS FARM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271528
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Barn at Rumballs Farm
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AT RUMBALLS FARM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271528
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Barn at Rumballs Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN AT RUMBALLS FARM
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:
- BARN AT RUMBALLS FARM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Stortford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL4730719744
Details
THORLEY
TL 41 NE Barn at Rumballs Farm
403/8/10007
19-MAR-01
II
Barn, currently store. Late C17 to early C18 with later bay addition and outshots. Timber-framed with weatherboard exterior and corrugated metal roof. Four bays with brick outshots. Cart entrance in original central bay and open end (Feb. 2001) from removal of a later addition.
PLAN: Four bays with additions to south side under shed roof.
EXTERIOR: Weatherboard at all elevations thickly tarred. Corrugated metal roof half-hipped at both ends. Double cart doors at north side. Brick outshot at south side with rounded corner and decorative ventilation holes in brickwork. Plank door to outshot with similar hinges to east door and cart doors.
INTERIOR: Queen-post through-purlin roof with curved wind-braces and curved braces to tie beams in 3 original bays. Jowled posts with gun-stop profile at each bay, some replaced. Curved tension braces at gable end of first bay. At second bay, later cart door with wall plate intact to north and cut wall plate and rafters for outshot to south. Base of barn covered in horizontal boards and filled with concrete. Redundant mortises in tie beam of third bay and in apparently re-used tie beam at open end. Heavy and staggered mid-rail in all bays with back of weatherboarding exposed at interior. Carpenters marks in original bays. Light scantling peg-jointed rafters in original bays.
HISTORY: Barn at Rumball's Farm now separated from the remaining farm buildings with C19 farmhouse, thatched barn and cartshed adjacent but under separate ownership.
Listing NGR: TL4730719744
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487646
- 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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