Barn at Maydencroft Manor
BARN AT MAYDENCROFT MANOR, MAYDENCROFT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1295380
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Barn at Maydencroft Manor
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AT MAYDENCROFT MANOR, MAYDENCROFT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1295380
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Barn at Maydencroft Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN AT MAYDENCROFT MANOR, MAYDENCROFT 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:
- BARN AT MAYDENCROFT MANOR, MAYDENCROFT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Ippolyts
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 18140 27381
Details
ST IPPOLLITTS MAYDENCROFT LANE TL 1827 (North side) Gosmore
8/57 27.5.68 Barn at Maydencroft Manor
GV II*
Barn. Late C16, brick infill c.1700. Timber frame on flint sill repaired in red brick with tile pinnings. Exposed frame infilled with narrow red brick incorporating staggered soldier courses with gaps for ventilation. Steep old red tile roof. A 5-bays barn on W side of farmyard at entrance to property, facing E, with a projecting gabled E porch central, and original rear aisle. Step-jowled posts, unjowled mid-bay posts, straight tension braces above rail, long curved braces to tie-beams. Trusses with collar at mid-height with 2 inclined queen-struts to collar, which supports heavy convex curved inclined queen posts, the enlarger heads of which clasp the upper purlin. Long straight wind-braces in middle and end bays. Rafters jointed into lower butt-purlin. Edge-halved scarf joint with bridled butts and large face peg in rear arcade plate. Long cross curved braces to arcade plate. Aisle-ties and aisle-purlin carried on aisle-collars. Passing braces from aisle wall-posts trenched through side of arcade post and face-notched onto tie-beam. Pidgeon loft in roof of porch. Large double doors to porch. Small door in end bays. Curved braces to mid-height rails in side walls of porch. Rear wall faced in red brick. John Bunyan is said to have preached in the barn. (RCHM (1911)130 no. 2).
Listing NGR: TL1814027381
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162669
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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