NORTH BARN AT HEATH END FARM

NORTH BARN AT HEATH END FARM, HEATH END

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1372259
Date first listed:: 28-May-1986
List Entry Name:: NORTH BARN AT HEATH END FARM
Statutory Address:: NORTH BARN AT HEATH END FARM, HEATH END

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1372259
Date first listed:: 28-May-1986
List Entry Name:: NORTH BARN AT HEATH END FARM
Statutory Address 1:: NORTH BARN AT HEATH END FARM, HEATH END

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NORTH BARN AT HEATH END FARM, HEATH END

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:: Wigginton
National Grid Reference:: SP 94823 07173

Details

WIGGINTON HEATH END SP 90 NW (West side) 6/161 North Barn at - Heath End Farm - II Barn. W tie-beam of threshing bay inscribed 'THIS BARN BUILT THE YEAR 1722'. Timber frame on brick sill, dark weatherboarded with half-hipped steep old red tiled roof. A tall 4-bays structure facing N with projecting gabled porch to 2nd bay from W, and N lean-to under catslide extension of roof extending to E of porch. Interior has partitioned E bay with heavily framed inserted floor for a granary. Thin brick infill to framed partition. Queen-posts in clasped-purlin roof. Curved braces from posts to cambered tie-beams. Unjowled mid-bay posts and mid-height rail tenoned in-line. Raised floor of thick planks in threshing bay. Possibly a C17 4-bays barn, re-erected here in 1722 adapted for a combined barn and granary.

Listing NGR: SP9482307173

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 355798
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.