Heath Farmhouse
HEATH FARMHOUSE, THE HEATH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366120
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Heath Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HEATH FARMHOUSE, THE HEATH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366120
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Heath Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEATH FARMHOUSE, THE HEATH
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:
- HEATH FARMHOUSE, THE HEATH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- King's Walden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL1491822603
Details
TL 12 SW
3/15
27.5.68
KINGS WALDEN
THE HEATH
(East side)
Heath Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Late C15 open hall house with 2 crosswings; floor and timber
framed chimney inserted in hall in late C16, stack replaced in brick in
C18/C19. C17 parallel kitchen wing at SE. Timber frame roughcast with
red brick casing to ground floor at front except for E wing where
framing is exposed below jetty. Steep old red tile roofs. A large
1½-storeys house set at rear of yard facing W with gabled crosswings at
each end, not projecting, and a small parallel kitchen wing beyond a
chimney at rear of S crosswing. W front has a drip-board along the top
of the ground floor brickwork, entrance beside jettied S wing, a
3-lights casement window near the middle with a 3-lights swept roofed
dormer at the eaves, and a casement window to each floor of the 2
crosswings. Flush small-panes casements. Interior has exposed framework.
Wings probably same date as hall. 2-bays N wing has heavy flat joists
and chamfered and stopped crossbeam. On upper floor one room has
cambered tie-beam and 2-centred solid braces. S wing of poorer quality
with tension braces and steeply cambered tie-beam. In hall all 3 trusses
moulded, with moulded capitals to open truss of clasped-purlin roof.
Solid braces of simple curvature join purlins to principal rafters.
2-bays parallel SE wing has straight angle braces to S tie-beam,
straight tension braces to N end. Reeded moulding to soffit of floor
beam inserted in hall. A late medieval house with unusually good
interior details. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1491822603
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162807
- 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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