Ansells End Farmhouse
ANSELLS END FARMHOUSE, ANSELLS END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347307
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ansells End Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ANSELLS END FARMHOUSE, ANSELLS END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347307
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ansells End Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ANSELLS END FARMHOUSE, ANSELLS END
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:
- ANSELLS END FARMHOUSE, ANSELLS END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kimpton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 15863 19014
Details
TL 11 NE KIMPTON ANSELLS END
6/75 Ansell's End Farmhouse 29/8/85 ( formerly listed as Smith's Farmhouse)
GV II
Farmhouse. C15 or early-C16 hall house, the hall floored over in C16, when a 2 storey cross wing was added at the W end. Cased in dark red brick circa 1800 and roof given a single pitch. 2 storeys. 3 glazing bar casements, 2 on ground floor with segmental heads. Central door has 2 flush, 2 fielded and 2 glazed panels. Moulded wood frame. Cut brackets. Moulded and dentilled brick eaves cornice. Tall C17 chimney stack on front W end with 2 square shafts. Interior has on right centre a C15 or C16 smoke bay into which a brick stack has been inserted. Heavy C16 chamfered floor beams. Roof retains 2 crown posts and some smoke-blackened rafters. Some C18 partitioning. Rear elevation shows sable of cross wing and projecting beyond this is a C.16 service bay with C18 red brick and timber frame casing. Fragmentary early-C17 wall paintings in ground floor of cross wing.
Listing NGR: TL1586319014
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162022
- 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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