MANSION HOUSE FARMHOUSE

MANSION HOUSE FARMHOUSE, BEDMOND ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1348213
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: MANSION HOUSE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: MANSION HOUSE FARMHOUSE, BEDMOND ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1348213
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1985
Date of most recent amendment:: 23-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: MANSION HOUSE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MANSION HOUSE FARMHOUSE, BEDMOND ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MANSION HOUSE FARMHOUSE, BEDMOND ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Three Rivers (District Authority)
Parish:: Abbots Langley
National Grid Reference:: TL0968402520

Details

TL 00 SE ABBOTS LANGLEY BEDMOND ROAD (East side) Abbots Langley

11/1 Mansion House Farm House II

House. Mid to late C17, extended in C18 and mid C19. Red brick with some timber framing. Part roughcast. Tiled roofs. Original building is of an unusual form, a long rectangular range, all of 2 storeys but of differing heights, possibly 2 or more builds. All roughcast to front, tallest bay at original right end. Panelled door with cambered head to reveal. First floor 2 light timber glazing bar casement with a moulded flush frame. Roof hipped to right. Gable end to left steps down to a lower gable ended bay with similar 2 light casements. Gable has exposed timber struts in C17 brick work. Further left a longer 2 bay range, to right a ground floor 2 light casement and a raked 2 light dormer. Lower ground floor to left with an entrance and a 3 light casement all under a hood. First floor 2 light casement. To far left an C18 extension with an entrance way and a 2 light window. Red brick C19 additions are to right. One 3 bay wing projects forward. Gable end to front with extruded stack with offsets, gable parapet with moulded kneelers. Left return: glazing bar sashes in reveals with gauged brick flat arched heads, stone sills. Ground floor centre and first floor 2 bays to front are blind. Cellar entrance with a cambered head. Right return has 1 bay of glazing bar sashes in a vertical plum brick band. To right end is second C19 block. 1 bay with entrance to left, panelled door, timber porch with simple entablature. Glazing bar sashes. Roof hipped to front. 1 bay right return, plum brick with red brick dressings, glazing bar sashes. Rear elevation: English bond red brick to original building, altered openings. To left, ground floor C19 6 light casement, cambered head, first floor small 2 light casement in an earlier large opening with a crudely cambered head. To right a very large C17 external chimney breast, multiple offsets, small window in left side, plat band, tall c19 cap with diagonally set course. To right of stack a first floor 2 light casement. To far right in lower range an entrance and blocked openings. To left C19 gable end, 2 light casement with a cambered head, stack. To far left a 1 storey brick outbuilding with an enclosed glass and timber front, hipped roof. To far left from front a 1 storey weatherboarded outbuilding with a hipped roof. Interior: stop chamfered bearers, early C18 staircase with vase balusters, panelled stair well and first floor room. C17 wall painting of a house on first floor end wall. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL0968402520

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Legacy System number:: 158650
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.