The Homestead
THE HOMESTEAD, CHURCH END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348026
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Homestead
- Statutory Address:
- THE HOMESTEAD, CHURCH END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348026
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Homestead
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HOMESTEAD, CHURCH END
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:
- THE HOMESTEAD, CHURCH END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Markyate
- National Grid Reference:
- TL0599216775
Details
TL 0516
7/146
26.1.67
MARKYATE
CHURCH END
(South side)
The Homestead
(formerly listed under Luton Road)
II
House. C17 or earlier, W part altered in C18/C19. Timber frame exposed
in W gable infilled with painted brick, roughcast front and rear but
ground floor at rear of painted brick. Brick shows in N gable of higher
W part which has tie rod plates placed as if for 2½ storeys
accommodation. Steep old red tile roofs. E end corrugated iron roof to
lean-to. A 3-units, internal chimney, former lobby-entry plan house with
stair to rear of stack. 2-storeys and attics house facing North with W
part raised to 2½ storeys. Higher roof to W of large cruciform stack
when viewed from front but also extends behind stack over staircase. 2
upper windows in W part, one in E part. Gabled porch at beginning of W
part and 2 ground floor windows to W. 3 windows to ground floor to E
part. Casement flush windows of 2-lights generally, 3-lights to 1st
floor of E part.
Listing NGR: TL0599216775
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157925
- 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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