Honours Farm

BOVINGDON NEWHOUSE ROAD TL 0103 (North side) 10/38 Honours Farm -

• II

Farmhouse, now a private house. C16, W bay early C17, E bay raised to 2 storeys 1972. Timber frame on red brick sill, front cased in red brick and ground floor at rear. Red brick infill to exposed frame on upper part of rear wall. Weatherboarded W gable end. Flint rubble walls to NE outshut. Steep old red tile roofs. A long 2 storeys, 4 windows house facing S set back from road. 3-light wooden casement windows with leaded glazing (renewed). Small gable to lower E part over upper window. Half- glazed door into E bay of original 2-storeys, 2-cells, internal-chimney plan house in middle. This has a 4-flue chimney extending to the front wall with a stair to N of it against rear wall. Axial floor beams with hollow stops to chamfers and squared joists. Similar in C17 W bay. Curved braces in walls and shutter groove for unglazed 1st floor rear window. Jowled posts and clasped-purlin roof with curved wind-braces and strutted-collar trusses. Wide-spaced studs in walls. Cast iron Boxmoor grazing rights plaque no. 183: said to have had 2 plaques as it was 2 properties at time of their issue in C19. (Roberts(1975)No.35).

Listing NGR: TL0125903964