Town Farm House (On Corner Of Stortford Road)

Standon TL 39 22 STANDON MILL END (east side)

7/3 Town Farm House (on corner of Stortford Road)

GV II

Farmhouse, now a house. Late medieval open hall house; floored and chimney inserted in late C16; brick front and slate roof said to be of 1789 (RCHM Typescript). Timber frame plastered with red brick casing to S front and front half of W end. Steep pitched hipped roof now slated. 2 storeys E crosswing and former open hall of unusual proportions, heightened to 2 storeys throughout in C16 or later. Hall chimney rebuilt in C18 and external E gable chimney added c1789 to heat parlour E of hall. 3 windows brick S front with pilasters, floor band and moulded parapet cornice. Recessed sash windows with 2/2 panes under flat gauged arches with louvred shutters. 6-panel moulded door to left of centre has eliptical blind fanlight and a C19 round-headed porch. External gable chimneys to E and W. Interior has framing of N wall exposed on stair, cambered tie-beam and chamfered arched braces in E wing, and moulded wooden jambs and cambered lintel of hall fireplace probably surviving from an earlier timber framed chimney (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL3964122538