Bayford Hall

BAYFORD HALL, BAYFORD LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1347798
Date first listed:
20-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
Bayford Hall
Statutory Address:
BAYFORD HALL, BAYFORD LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1347798
Date first listed:
20-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
Bayford Hall
Statutory Address 1:
BAYFORD HALL, BAYFORD LANE

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:
BAYFORD HALL, BAYFORD LANE

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Bayford
National Grid Reference:
TL 30513 09061

Details

TL 30 NW BAYFORD BAYFORD LANE (West side)

3/15 Bayford Hall -

- II

Farmhouse. Early C18, marked as Old Farm on estate map of 1758 (HRO), altered early C19, and in later C19 for second son of Clinton-Baker Lords of the Manor. Red brick and slate roofs with parapets. Red tiles to open timber porch. 2-storeys, attics and cellar, double-pile rectangular house facing S with 1½-storeys LH extension. Front has twin canted bay windows, porch to entrance in middle, segmental arches to recessed sash windows on 1st floor with 2/2 large panes, 3 box dormers on the roofslope, 6-panels moulded door with fanlight, and end-chimneys to the 2 parallel pitched roofs. This M-roof shows on RH end which has a central entrance giving onto stairs and serving the kitchen in rear RH corner of house plan, with old dresser built in. W wall of old house has an early C18 slightly recessed single-light transomed window now exposed in the extension, closed string stair with turned balusters and heavy square newels serving the attic, ovolo-panelled room with contemporary C18 fireplace on 1st floor in SE room, and similar panelling, cupboards and doors with IL hinges in other 1st floor rooms. Ground floor interior elaborately remodelled in later C19. Fire insurance plaque in house with clasped hands and number 79373.

Listing NGR: TL3051309061

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
160623
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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