Duck Hall Farm
DUCK HALL FARM, NEWHOUSE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296536
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Duck Hall Farm
- Statutory Address:
- DUCK HALL FARM, NEWHOUSE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296536
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Duck Hall Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUCK HALL FARM, NEWHOUSE 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:
- DUCK HALL FARM, NEWHOUSE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bovingdon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 01205 04043
Details
BOVINGDON NEWHOUSE ROAD TL 00 SW (North side) 6/36 Duck Hall Farm -
GV II
Farmhouse, now a private house. Late C15 former open hall house, N wing early C19, mid C19 brick casing and tilehanging. Timber frame on brick sill. Upper floor of red tilehanging with scalloped tiled bands. Steep old red tile roofs. A 1½ storeys, 3-cells and cross-passage house facing S with 2 unequal gables facing road on W. Matching C19 parallel rear extension on NW with catslide rear outshut at NE of main range.Irregular S front has a gabled dormer window rising through the eaves in the middle bay with similar 3-light casement windows to that to hall below. Door on RH up 3 steps leads into cross-passage. Small 2-light Yorkshire sliding casement to right of door. Large side-chimney to parlour rises through lower part of roofslope on left. W front has rendered ground floor below, decorative tilehanging, 2 windows to each floor and door in middle. 3-light casement windows and 4-panel, half glazed door under a lean-to bracketed tiled hood. Interior has cross-passage taken out of E service bay with original upper floor structure (lower than rest) and access by steep ladder in SE corner to room over. The other 2 bays had floors inserted in the C16 on chamfered axial beams, the middle bay provided with a large rear wall fireplace and chimney with winding stair beside it on W. The front wall chimney to the W bay has 2 flues for the parlour and chamber over it. This plan may be a C16 adaptation of a former 2-bay open hall with storeyed service end, common in this area. Curved braces to heavy cambered tie-beams. Clasped-purlin roofs with collars and queen-struts. Wattle and daub partition panels. Ledged plank doors on iron hooks and bands. Early C19 N extension gave 2 more heated rooms and new stair. (Roberts(1975)No.36: Pevsner (1977)107).
Listing NGR: TL0120504043
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157563
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Roberts, E, The Bovingdon Survey, ()
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 107
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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