Hill Farmhouse
HILL FARMHOUSE, PIPERS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348052
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HILL FARMHOUSE, PIPERS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348052
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILL FARMHOUSE, PIPERS 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:
- HILL FARMHOUSE, PIPERS LANE
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:
- TL 06078 17984
Details
MARKYATE PIPERS LANE TL 01 NE (West side) 2/185 Hill Farmhouse 26.1.67
- II
Farmhouse. Plaster plaque over N entrance 'B/BM/1695'; lower W extension early C18. Banded English-bond brickwork with red stretchers and blue headers, deep coved plaster eaves cornice to steep old red tile roof. A tall 2-storeys cellar and attic house, 5 windows long, with N and S fronts apparently of equal importance, and lower 2-storeys W extension and brick outhouse linked to SW corner. S front to road has plat band, a hipped dormer on the roofslope of W part, 5 sash windows on 1st floor with 8/8 panes, 2 3-lights casement windows on ground floor, and central 4-panels door up 3 steps with rectangular fanlight. N front to yard has plaster date plaque in recess over central door, plat band steps up over doorhead, and symmetrical design of 2 windows to each side on 1st and ground floors and to cellar. 2nd window from E blocked on each floor and 2nd window from W blocked on ground floor. Segmental arch to door. One window W extension has plat band, corbelled eaves band, 2-light casement window to 1st floor and rectangular bay to ground floor. Interior has chamfered axial beams, squared joists, internal gable chimneys at each end with larger open fireplace at W.
Listing NGR: TL0607817984
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157964
- 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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