Barns And Gate Farmhouse

TL 71 SE HATFIELD PEVEREL NOUNSLEY ROAD (east side)

5/69 Barns and Gate 25.3.80 Farmhouse,(formerly listed as Barnards and Gate Farmhouse)

GV II

House. Early C16, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay crosswing facing N, with C19 external stack to right. 2-bay hall range to left, of C17 origin but much altered in C20, and C20 crosswing to left, with one internal stack, and C20 extensions to rear. Crosswings of 2 storeys, hall range of one storey and attics. 3 C20 casements on ground floor, 4 on first floor, including 2 in gabled dormers, all diamond leaded. C20 door. Both crosswings jettied, 2 plain brackets exposed below right jetty. The original interior features are mainly in the right crosswing. Jowled posts, close studding with curved tension bracing trenched to the outside, chamfered binding beam with plain stops, plain joists of horizontal section jointed to it with soffit tenons with diminished haunches. Cambered central tiebeam with arched braces to it, crownpost roof with plain post and axial bracing, originally hipped to the rear, almost complete. Diamond mortices and shutter grooves for unglazed windows at front and back. RCHM 20 (wrongly described and illustrated as Red Robin Farm).

Listing NGR: TL7982310326