Pound Farmhouse
POUND FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347234
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Pound Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- POUND FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00309/11
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347234
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Pound Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- POUND FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- POUND FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sandridge
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 17010 10578
Details
TL 11 SE SANDRIDGE HIGH STREET (west side) SANDRIDGE
6/363 Pound Farmhouse
19.10.53
GV II
Farmhouse. Late C15 or early C16, extended and altered C17, C18 and C19. Timber frame. Roughcast walling. Plain tile gable end roof. 2 storeys. 4-window elevation has, on left, a large early-mid C19 venetian window, triple hung with gothic glazing bars to arched central light. On right side are 3 cast iron casements of 3-4 lights. Central mid-late C18 wooden doorcase with Doric pilasters, enriched entablature and mutuled pediment. Door has 4 moulded and 2 glazed panes. The house has 5 bays, the N bay a C17 addition. S bay was a 2-storey wing to a 3-bay hall in centre. These 3 bays have smoke-blackened roof timbers and partition. Cambered tie beam with massive crown strut. The S bay has, to ground floor, early-mid C19 detail. C18 chimney stack inserted between this on next bay. S gable end is mid-late C18 chequered red brick with floor band and burnt header lozenge pattern. At the rear of the house is a large early C18 2-storey extension with twin hipped roof, plastered walls and dentilled brick eaves. N wall of extension with tall red brick stack, corbelled at top. Good early-mid C18 staircase in centre of house. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1701010578
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163907
- 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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