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Latitude: 51.9374 / 51°56'14"N
Longitude: -0.1147 / 0°6'52"W
OS Eastings: 529702
OS Northings: 228225
OS Grid: TL297282
Mapcode National: GBR K8Y.FTT
Mapcode Global: VHGNV.YKQM
Plus Code: 9C3XWVPP+X4
Entry Name: Farmhouse at Cromer Farm
Listing Date: 19 October 1951
Last Amended: 31 May 1984
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1101451
English Heritage Legacy ID: 159515
ID on this website: 101101451
Location: Cromer, East Hertfordshire, SG2
County: Hertfordshire
District: East Hertfordshire
Civil Parish: Ardeley
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: Ardeley
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Farmhouse
TL 2928 ARDELEY CROMER
(east side)
6/10 Farmhouse at
Cromer Farm
19.10.51 (formerly listed
as Cromer Farmhouse)
GV II*
House. Circa 1500 open hall house with 2 jettied cross-wings,
central chimney and floor over hall inserted in late C16 or early
Cl7, S wing enlarged to E in C17, NE wing C20. Timber frame
roughcast but framing exposed outside on front of ground floor
of crosswings, and upper floor of S wing. Steep old red tile
roofs. An H-plan house of 2 storeys facing W. One and a half
storeys hall range in middle has a galbed dormer at the eaves
and a large central chimney near the S end backing onto the cross-
passage. Jettied upper floors of crosswings carried on bull-
nose joists and knee braces. Tension braces to upper floor
of S wing. 3-windows to each floor. Flush leaded C18 lattice
casements. Single hexagonal shaft to central chimney. Later
external chimney on N side of N (parlour) wing with diagonal
square shafts (rebuilt). Timbers exposed inside, with close
studding curved tension braces, heavy square-section joists,
moulded axial beam and chamfered and stopped joists in the hall,
4-centred arched rear doorway, former exterior framing of house
exposed in extension, traces of large hall window and shutter
recesses, hollow chamfered posts and braces of central hall truss,
and smoke-blackened clasped-purlin roof (constructed without
end trusses). At S, service wing axially divided. Crow-stepped
decoration to upper part of hall chimney stack. (RCHM (1911)
38: VCH (1912) 194: Pevsner (1977) 72: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL2970228225
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