LYNSTERS FARM HOUSE AND COTTAGE

LYNSTERS FARM HOUSE AND COTTAGE, OLD UXBRIDGE ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1348254
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: LYNSTERS FARM HOUSE AND COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: LYNSTERS FARM HOUSE AND COTTAGE, OLD UXBRIDGE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1348254
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: LYNSTERS FARM HOUSE AND COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: LYNSTERS FARM HOUSE AND COTTAGE, OLD UXBRIDGE 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LYNSTERS FARM HOUSE AND COTTAGE, OLD UXBRIDGE ROAD

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Three Rivers (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 03449 91953

Details

RICKMANSWORTH OLD UXBRIDGE ROAD TQ 09 SW (East side) West Hyde 8/213 Lynsters Farm House and Cottage II

House, now 2 dwellings. C15. Cased and extended in early C18. Extended and altered in mid C19. Timber frame core. Red brick cased and extended. Stock brick C19 block. Tiled roofs. Originally 2 bay open hall with 2 storey 3 or 4 bay parlour cross wing. T on plan. Now all 2 storeys. Hall with projecting cross wing to left and C19 block to right. Entrance at right end of hall: 6 panelled door in a recess under a C19 lean-to ground floor projection which has a 4 light window, leaded panes, later sham timber framing. First floor has 3 openings with cambered heads, central 2 light casement with timber glazing bars, outer openings blocked. Parapet with banded brick coping, segmental step up to centre. Steeply pitched roof with stack to front pitch where hall meets cross wing. Parapet to gable front of cross wing. Brick plinth and 2 plat bands. Ground and first floor 2 light timber glazing bar casements with cambered heads. To right is 1 bay mid C19 block. Large ground floor tripartite casement. Small first floor 2 light casement. Moulded dentilled eaves. Hipped roof. Similar right return. Left return from cross wing has an extruded stack, 2 light casement on ground floor, oculus on first floor. Dentilled eaves. Straight joint near front wall. Extending to left and set well back is a separate C18 brick block. Tall 2 storeys. 2 bays. Squarish on plan. Ground floor; hooded entrance with flanking.C20 windows. First floor small sashes over entrance and to right. Ridge stack to left of centre. Hipped roof. In angle with cross wing a roughcast projection with an entrance. First floor 6 light casement. Hipped roof. To rear, casements on hall range, ground floor French windows, first floor C20 window, hipped roof on mid C19 range. Cross wing has 2 ground floor C20 windows and a blocked entrance, large first floor sash with a cambered head, gable parapet. Stack on ridge joining cross wing to C18 block which has C20 windows. Dentilled eaves. Interior not inspected. (VCH 1908: RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TQ0344991953

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 158857
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1908)

Legal

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