Former Farmhouse with attached stables and outhouse to North

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TL 32 NE 4/5

ASPENDEN BALDOCK ROAD (south side) The Old Farmhouse, Oak View & Farm View

(Formerly listed as Farmhouse at How Green Farm with attached stables and outhouse to N)

GV II

House with attached stables and outhouse. Late C17 house ('1696' in plaster oval plaque said to have been removed from North side in C20 to make a window). Timber frame on stuccoed plinth,stepped at East end. Roughcast with steep old red tile hipped roof. A two-storeys, three-cells, central-chimney plan house facing South. Central stack a third from East with parlour to East, hall to West, and service room at West end. Two openings and oven projection at North wall in line with stack. Staircase and passage on South side of stack. South front has three windows to each floor and a door into the hall. Flush casement windows, with mullions, leaded glazing and iron plate casements. Some renewed in wood. Chamfered axial beams and exposed joists in hall and service bay. Chamfered cross-beam in parlour with canted rear corners to brick fireplace. Old moulded plank door with iron strap hinges to staircase, and classical balusters between two rails to landing. Cyma moulded mullion to blocked window on landing. Oak frame with unjowled posts and soffits-squinted butt scarf-joint with secret bridle in wallplate. Specially interesting as a dated example of a late C17 timber-framed house. C19 L-shaped stable dark weatherboarded with red pantile roof, and lower similar weatherboarded outhouse extending to East with pitched roof formerly thatched now of corrugated iron.

House and outbuildings enclose three sides of a yard on the North of the house and form a picturesque roadside group with the barn (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TL3555629460