Burleigh Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns
BURLEIGH FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARNS, HITCHIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295801
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Burleigh Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns
- Statutory Address:
- BURLEIGH FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARNS, HITCHIN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295801
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Burleigh Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns
- Statutory Address 1:
- BURLEIGH FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARNS, HITCHIN 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:
- BURLEIGH FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARNS, HITCHIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Knebworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL2223021648
Details
TL 22 SW KNEBWORTH HITCHIN ROAD (east side)
3/141 Burleigh Farmhouse and adjoining barns -
- II
Farmhouse, mid C17 timber frame. Refaced late C19. U-shaped group. Farmhouse has roughcast ground floor and tile-hung 1st floor and attic. Glazing bar basements. Concealed plinth. steep-pitched machine-tile roof. Farmyard elevation has 2 large lateral chimney stacks in red brick with rebuilt diagonal shafts. Exposed timber frame and brick nogging on right side. Similar external stack on elevation towards road, where on left side is a C17 single storey-timberframe and red brick barn with plain tiles, and beyond this a mid C19 barn in yellow stock brick with slate roof. Barns are weatherboarded on farmyard side and include a third at right angles of C19 and red brick.
Listing NGR: TL2202821440
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162088
- 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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