Netherwylde Farm House

TL 10 SE ALDENHAM WATLING STREET (West side) Radlett

3/58 Netherwylde Farm House 15.7.80

GV II

House. Early C16 origins. Rebuilt and extended mid C17. Brick refronting late C18. C19 additions and C20 alterations. Timber frame, front and return brick walls, rendering to rear. Tiled roofs. Originally a 2 bay hall house, rebuilt as double-ended, lobby entry house with staircase wing to rear. 2 storeys and attic. Front: entrance to right of hall range in C19 brick and flint porch hiding earlier bracketed hood. C20 casements. Dentilled brick eaves. One hipped dormer to left. C17 ridge stack to right: cruciform with oversailing caps and buttressing to rear. Gabled cross wings project slightly to front. C20 glazing bar sashes with flat arched heads. C20 brick right return with a C19/C20 gabled projection. Left return: extruded stack with offsets and a lean-to conservatory addition. To rear: cross wings extend, further to right, exposed wall plates and purlins. C19 stacks to gable ends. Sash to staircase wing, stairs removed. Casements elsewhere. 2 half dormers flank central wing. Later lean-to additions. To rear right C19 1-storey dairy, rendered with a hipped roof. Interior: ground floor ovolo moulded binding beam. Restored wall painting in first floor ceiling in right wing: dated 1662 with initials and ornament. Clasped purlin roof. Curved braces to tie beams and wind braces. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL1516701218