Farmhouse at Finches Farm
FARMHOUSE AT FINCHES FARM, TOWN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347950
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Farmhouse at Finches Farm
- Statutory Address:
- FARMHOUSE AT FINCHES FARM, TOWN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347950
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Farmhouse at Finches Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARMHOUSE AT FINCHES FARM, TOWN 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.
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:
- FARMHOUSE AT FINCHES FARM, TOWN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Benington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3055523333
Details
TL 32 SW
4/17
24.11.66
BENINGTON
TOWN LANE
(south side)
Farmhouse at Finches Farm
(formerly listed as Finches Farmhouse)
GV
II
House. Lower S part early/mid C17, brick N wing of later C18
with facade overlapping older part. Timber framed older part
with red brick outshuts to front and rear under steep catslide
old tile roof, half-hipped at S. Red brick N part with grey
brick flat gauged arches, but grey brick front with red brick
gauged arches. Old red tile gambrel roof, hipped at rear: Originally
a 3-cell, central-chimney plan house facing E with winding stair
beside chimney. 2-storeys and attics, with chamfered axial beams.
N parlour end destroyed when C18 N wing built, providing a new
entrance hall and stair and 2 lofty rooms with chambers and attics
over. Clasped-purlin construction of old roof, altered to butt-
purlin adjoining new structure. Symmetrical E front to newer
part with 2 large Venetian sash windows on each floor and central
entrance. 6-panel moulded door and mutular Doric pilastered
doorcase. Small flat topped dormer behind parapet. Unfortunate
small window inserted over door. 2 red brick chimneys on N end
flanked by blind recesses with gauged brick flat arches. Older
part has 3 casement windows and a large red brick chimney rising
through the rear roofslope. In the older part are chamfered
beams, one with bar stop on 1st floor, chamfered and stopped
doorframe on ground floor, bolection moulded door to stair (which
has an ogee finial to newel at attic level), and vertically moulded
plank doors with H-hinges. In newer N wing is a simple stair,
a raised and fielded panelled corner cupboard with fretted frieze
in office to left of entrance, and a glazed corner cupboard with
shaped shelves and hemicycle head painted with a delicate and
accomplished romantic landscape scene with archers and stags.
(RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3055523333
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159623
- 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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