Westley Farm

WESTLEY FARM, BLACK HALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1347762
Date first listed:
13-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:
Westley Farm
Statutory Address:
WESTLEY FARM, BLACK HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1347762
Date first listed:
13-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:
Westley Farm
Statutory Address 1:
WESTLEY FARM, BLACK HALL

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WESTLEY FARM, BLACK HALL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Meesden
National Grid Reference:
TL 43630 31838

Details

TL 43 SW MEESDEN BLACK HALL (West side)

2/128 Westley Farm -

GV II

House. C16 on earlier site, small extension to N and S and parallel rear wing 1971. Timber frame on black stuccoed sill, plastered with panelled pargetting on Ground Floor, exposed closs-studded timber framing on 1st floor. Steep half-hipped old red tiled roofs. A 3-cells, 2-storeys, internal chimney, lobby entry plan house facing E with a narrow chimney bay, two wide bays to N, a smaller bay for parlour at S (extended by half a bay in 1971). 3 small flush casement windows with small lights on each floor. Gabled porch. Parallel narrow rear range stops short of S end. 1 ½ storeys kitchen set back at N end with gabled dormer on roof slope and open fronted garage to N. Interior has exposed timbers, curved tension braces in rear wall, jowled posts, clasped-purlin roof re-using soot blackened rafters from an earlier house, face-halved bladed scarf joint in wallplate, back-to-back fireplaces, axial beam in parlour but cross beams in part to N of chimney bay. Former stair behind chimney. Mortices for 4-light diamond mullioned window in rear wall.

Listing NGR: TL4363031838

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
160349
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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