Austins Hall Farm

BOVINGDON VENUS HILL TL 00 SW (South side) 6/47 Austins Hall Farm 22.10.52 (formerly listed as Austins Hall)

GV II

Farmhouse, now an isolated private house. C16 or earlier, E part probably c.1900. Timber frame exposed externally with painted brick infill. Steep old red tile roofs with half-hipped crosswings. A 2-storeys and attics T-plan house facing N and extended in keeping to E to form H-plan. 5 windows long with hipped dormer, casement windows, and porch to lobby-entry by large internal chimney serving hall range and W wing. Interior has exposed frame of 3-bays hall range and 3-bays W crosswing. Winding stair in turret in rear angle with E crosswing. W wing has a 3-light diamond mullioned window on W wall. Frame has wide panels, jowled posts, numbered joists, curved braces to cambered tie- beams; straight wind-braces to clasped-purlin roofs, chamfered axial floor beams, and surviving wattle-and-daub infill on 1st floor. Lead pump box next E wing has raised lettering 'Scott/Plumber/TW/1831/Harrow'. In forecourt a large carved stone Ionic pilaster capital said to be from the Temple of the Winds at Moor Park.

Listing NGR: TL0156401761