Farmhouse at Manor Farm
FARMHOUSE AT MANOR FARM, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348003
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Farmhouse at Manor Farm
- Statutory Address:
- FARMHOUSE AT MANOR FARM, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348003
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Farmhouse at Manor Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARMHOUSE AT MANOR FARM, HIGH STREET
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 MANOR FARM, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Walkern
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 28952 26539
Details
TL 2826 WALKERN HIGH STREET (west side)
7/7 Farmhouse at Manor Farm 20.10.52 (formerly listed as Manor Farmhouse)
GV II*
House. Circa 1700. Red brick in Flemish-bond with diaper of dark headers on front. Rear service wing timber framed and plastered. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2 storeys and attics, L-plan house facing E. Symmetrical single-pile front range with 3 panes. Bellcast to eaves with wood modillioned cornice breaking forward at ends and over central rubbed brick panel with pilasters. 2 windows to each side on each floor. Flush box sash windows with gauged flat arches, moulded architraves and 6/6 panes. Plinth and moulded floorband running around the house. Central 6-panel raised and fielded door with panelled overdoor in wooden doorcase set in recess. Fluted pilasters carry paired panelled brackets and moulded flat hood. Internal gable chimneys. Moulded brick corbels carry kneelers for the brick gable parapets. 4 small openings in S gable. Lower, 2-storeys brick kitchen wing to rear has a large gable chimney. Stair tower in rear angle. Fine interior with raised and fielded panelled rooms on ground floor and dado panelling and moulded cornices on 1st floor. Moulded closed string staircase, with fat turned balusters and moulded newel offsets carved from the solid, rises through 3 floors. 2-panel raised and fielded doors throughout. Bolection moulded fire surround in N room on 1st floor. Formerly called Walkern Place. (RCHM (1911) 225: VCH (1912) 151: Pevsner (1977) 373: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL2895226539
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159688
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 151
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 373
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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