Old Farmhouse at Fir Tree Farm
OLD FARMHOUSE AT FIR TREE FARM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347954
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Old Farmhouse at Fir Tree Farm
- Statutory Address:
- OLD FARMHOUSE AT FIR TREE FARM
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07451/03
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347954
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Old Farmhouse at Fir Tree Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD FARMHOUSE AT FIR TREE FARM
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:
- OLD FARMHOUSE AT FIR TREE FARM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ardeley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 32075 26694
Details
TL 32 NW ARDELEY MOOR GREEN (south side)
2/9 Old farmhouse at Fir Tree Farm 26.5.83 (formerly listed as Fir Tree Farmhouse)
GV II
House. Circa 1600 incorporating C16 2-bay crosswing at W, altered and fronted in brick c1800. Timber frame roughcast and part weatherboarded. Red brick front. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys T-plan house facing N, with crosswing at W, large central chimney with cruciform shaft, at junction of wings, lobby-entry at front and staircase in rear angle. Small projection for lobby to line with front of wing. Rear lateral internal chimney and stop-chamfered axial beam in E room suggests this was the originally unheated parlour. W wing a service wing, W bay c1800, lean-to dairy extension. Upper floor of W wing has close-studding exposed and tension bracing. N front has 3 windows to each floor and small upper window beside porch. Heavy flush 3-light and 4-light wooden casement windows under segmental arches. Heavy frame to door under similar arch. Triangle of N gable of crosswing weatherboarded, and its ground floor in early C17 brickwork possibly representing the underbuilding of a jetty c1600. Separate open fireplace and oven inserted in crosswing with addition of W bay. Good pilastered C18 fire surround in hall and early C18 corner cupboard half glazed with hemicyle top. C17 moulded plank doors. Stair trap still in use giving access to upper floor of crosswing. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3207526694
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159535
- 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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