Eastern Barn at Church Farm, 50 Metres South East of Parish Church
EASTERN BARN AT CHURCH FARM, 50 METRES SOUTH EAST OF PARISH CHURCH, PIPERS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1296091
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Eastern Barn at Church Farm, 50 Metres South East of Parish Church
- Statutory Address:
- EASTERN BARN AT CHURCH FARM, 50 METRES SOUTH EAST OF PARISH CHURCH, PIPERS HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1296091
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Eastern Barn at Church Farm, 50 Metres South East of Parish Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- EASTERN BARN AT CHURCH FARM, 50 METRES SOUTH EAST OF PARISH CHURCH, PIPERS HILL
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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:
- EASTERN BARN AT CHURCH FARM, 50 METRES SOUTH EAST OF PARISH CHURCH, PIPERS HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Gaddesden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 02915 11218
Details
GREAT GADDESDEN PIPERS HILL TL 01 SW (North side) 3/118 Eastern Barn at 21.2.78 Church Farm, 50m south- east of Parish Church (Formerly listed as Eastern GV Barn at Church Farm)
II*
Barn. Late medieval, probably C15, cruck framed barn, extended to L-plan by roadside S range built in 3 stages westward during C17, older E range renovated with ends rebuilt in C18. Timber frame on low brick sill walls, dark weatherboarded, with steep old red tile roofs. A 5-bays cruck-framed barn, facing W into courtyard, retaining 4 out of the original cruck frames. Full crucks with a different apex treatment in each truss. Heavy diagonally-set ridge timber. Single purlin on each side set in the plane of roofslope, trenched through backs of crucks, and splay-scarfed at each truss and each part pegged to cruck. Lap-dovetail mortice on N-face of each cruck for a collar just below or just above the level of the purlin, now missing, and spur-ties, lap-jointed to N face of cruck and to wall-post below wallplate level. Modern timbers bolted across as tie-beams probably made necessary by removal of collars. Long convex curved wind-braces overlapped at junction with back of cruck-blade. Each pair of cruck blades are the matched halves from one timber. The southernmost pair are joined a little below the apex by a small lap-jointed collar, the blades continuing, to butt against the lower faces of the ridge-beam. The next pair to N rise and cross with the ridge supported in the crotch. Another has a yoke at the apex with a short post supporting the ridge. The wallplate has squint-butted scarf joints. W end of S range a 2-bays structure with butt-purlin roof, diminished principals and angled straight queen-posts to middle truss. The cruck barn is one of the most south-easterly examples of this form of construction. Largely dismantled for reconstruction as craft shop when inspected.
Listing NGR: TL0291711221
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157897
- 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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