Farmhouse at High Trees Farm (Along Track 200 Metres From Lane)
FARMHOUSE AT HIGH TREES FARM (ALONG TRACK 200 METRES FROM LANE), BEGGARMANS GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1296238
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Farmhouse at High Trees Farm (Along Track 200 Metres From Lane)
- Statutory Address:
- FARMHOUSE AT HIGH TREES FARM (ALONG TRACK 200 METRES FROM LANE), BEGGARMANS GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1296238
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Farmhouse at High Trees Farm (Along Track 200 Metres From Lane)
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARMHOUSE AT HIGH TREES FARM (ALONG TRACK 200 METRES FROM LANE), BEGGARMANS GREEN
- Statutory Address 2:
- FARMHOUSE AT HIGH TREES FARM (ALONG TRACK 200 METRES FROM LANE), BEGGARMANS 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:
- FARMHOUSE AT HIGH TREES FARM (ALONG TRACK 200 METRES FROM LANE), BEGGARMANS GREEN
- Statutory Address:
- FARMHOUSE AT HIGH TREES FARM (ALONG TRACK 200 METRES FROM LANE), BEGGARMANS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Munden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 35476 21945
Details
Beggarmans Green TL 32 SE GREAT MUNDEN BEGGARMANS LANE (north side)
5/36 Farmhouse at High Trees Farm 4.12.51 (along track 200m from lane)
GV II*
House. Early C17, possibly remodelling a medieval hall in the centre, renovated in C19. Timber frame plastered. Ground floor of front range renewed in masonry plastered. Steep old red tile hipped roofs. An L-plan house facing W. The higher front range has a central jettied hall and 2 storeys wings at each end. Parlour wing at N projects at rear and has a winding stair in the angle. Service wing at S has a lower 2-storeys central chimney range extending to rear (E) of it. Cross passage at lower end of hall entered by present front door. Large lateral rear wall chimney to hall with 2 flues and rear chimneys to crosswings. W front has 4 windows to 1st floor, one window to ground floor of each wing and a larger window to hall on left of gabled C20 porch to entrance door. C20 casement windows. Hall chimney has 2 conjoined diagonal flues. Interior has chamfered and stopped cross and axial beams in hall and a remarkable ovolo-moulded timber screen with 3 panels in height and dentilled cornice over a plain frieze with fluted brackets. Early C17 overmantle to fireplace of chamber over hall with fluted pilasters and Doric frieze, now in a passage flanked by scratch moulded oak panelling. Clasped-purlin queen-strut roof with slender windbraces of mid C17 in roof over hall and S wing. Older clasped-purlin roof over N wing. (RCHM (1911) 104-5: VCH (1912) 124: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3547621945
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161271
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 124
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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