Whitehall Farmhouse and Adjoining Dovecote
WHITEHALL FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING DOVECOTE, WHITEHALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347455
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Whitehall Farmhouse and Adjoining Dovecote
- Statutory Address:
- WHITEHALL FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING DOVECOTE, WHITEHALL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347455
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Whitehall Farmhouse and Adjoining Dovecote
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITEHALL FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING DOVECOTE, WHITEHALL 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:
- WHITEHALL FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING DOVECOTE, WHITEHALL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- King's Walden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 16892 23451
Details
TL 12 SE KINGS WALDEN WHITEHALL ROAD (North side)
4/42 Whitehall Farmhouse and adjoining dovecote
GV II
House. C16 open hall house with storeyed W crosswing, floor and chimney inserted in hall early C17, brick W wing mid C19 linked by tiled loggia to early C19 large flint dovecote to W. Timber frame on high sill, roughcast but stucco to front (S), red brick W wing, flint dovecote with brick dressings. Steep old red tile roofs. Originally an L-plan house facing S with storeyed W crosswing projecting to rear. 2-bays hall range with open truss and crosswing with cellar and 2 rooms on each floor. Inserted chimney against E face of this central truss with stair to S and axial beam to inserted floor. Stair in projecting N end of crosswing. 2-storeys and cellar, 2 rooms, C19, brick W wing with gabled ends projecting to N and S and large internal chimney. S front given a Gothick character in C19 with cusped bargeboards with finials to LH gable and dormer to 16 storeys hall range. 3-lights cast iron lattice casement windows with wider middle light. Half-glazed door under pentice. Interior has exposed frame with jowled posts, clasped-purlin roof and curved wind-braces. Large rectangular Gothick dovecote with 4 parallel roofs N-S across the narrower dimension of the building, the middle pair to a 2-storeys part, with large pointed-arched shallow recess central on S flanked by small windows and with 2 windows over. The windows are pointed with 2-lights leaded square-headed windows and dark weatherboarding in the head. Similar window to 2nd end of each single-storey gabled flanking part. In front a terracotta pedestal to sundial with clustered gothic shafts and small angels supporting the octagonal head. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1689223451
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162834
- 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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