Amwellbury Farmhouse And Adjacent Brick Barn

Amwellbury Farmhouse and the adjacent brick barn are located in Great Amwell. The farmhouse is an early 17th-century building that was constructed against a late 16th-century manorial brick barn, of which three-fifths is now incorporated into the house. The barn is a five-bay structure made of red brick in English bond, facing south and featuring a central projecting brick porch. It has steep gabled roofs covered with old red tiles, and a queen-strut and collar roof with one butt-purlin on each slope. The porch front has modern glazing between exposed timbers. There are lower sheds on the north and west sides of the barn that are not of special interest.

The early 17th-century farmhouse is two stories high and has a two-bay timber frame with a central chimney, built against the eastern end of the barn and projecting to the north. It is cased in brick with a floor band, three-light wooden mullioned casement windows, and a dormer added in the early 18th century, all in Flemish bond red brick. The northern gable is also made of brick.

In the late 18th century, a one-bay, two-story red brick front extension was added, matching the floor band and featuring a half-hipped tiled roof, projecting to the south of the barn. The house has a queen-strut and collar roof with butt-purlins and tennoned rafters. The floors are supported by axial beams that are chamfered and stopped, with thinner timbers in the southern extension.

In the early 19th century, the space between the southern extension and the barn porch was filled with a plastered two-story extension that has twin gabled roofs and small-paned casement windows. This group of buildings is of special interest as it illustrates the development of a farmhouse alongside a 16th-century barn at the manorial center, and it is part of a group with Amwellbury and the dovecote.