Farmhouse At High Trees Farm (Along Track 200 Metres From Lane) is a Grade II* listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. A Post-medieval Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Farmhouse At High Trees Farm (Along Track 200 Metres From Lane)

WRENN ID
white-quoin-nightshade
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Country
England
Date first listed
4 December 1951
Type
Farmhouse
Period
Post-medieval
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

High Trees Farm is an early 17th-century farmhouse, possibly remodelled from a medieval hall, with renovations carried out in the 19th century. The building features a timber frame that is plastered, with the ground floor of the front range renewed in masonry and plastered. It has steep old red tile hipped roofs and is designed in an L-plan, facing west.

The higher front range includes a central jettied hall flanked by two-storey wings at each end. The parlour wing to the north projects at the rear and contains a winding stair in the angle. The service wing to the south has a lower two-storey central chimney range that extends to the rear (east). A cross passage at the lower end of the hall is accessed through the current front door. The large lateral rear wall chimney serves the hall and has two flues, with additional rear chimneys for the crosswings.

The west front features four windows on the first floor, one window on the ground floor of each wing, and a larger window in the hall to the left of a gabled 20th-century porch at the entrance. The windows are 20th-century casements. The hall chimney has two conjoined diagonal flues.

Inside, the hall displays chamfered and stopped cross and axial beams, along with a notable ovolo-moulded timber screen that has three panels in height and a dentilled cornice over a plain frieze with fluted brackets. An early 17th-century overmantle above the fireplace in the chamber over the hall features fluted pilasters and a Doric frieze, now located in a passage flanked by scratch-moulded oak panelling. The roof over the hall and south wing has a clasped-purlin queen-strut design with slender windbraces from the mid-17th century, while the north wing has an older clasped-purlin roof.

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