Description

TL 20 SW POTTERS BAR MUTTON LANE
(North side)
Potters Bar

4/220 Mymms Hall
20.5.49 Farmhouse
(Formerly listed as Mymms Hall)
GV II

House, now 2 dwellings. Early C16 origins. Extended C17. Refronted and
much altered C18 and C19. Timber frame, brick casing, tiled roof. Half H
plan: apparent hall with crosswings with extension to rear right. 2
storeys with attics in wings. Front: 4 bay central range. Entrance 2nd
bay from right with Tuscan porch. Ground floor: canted bay with
crenellated parapet to right, two French windows to left, first floor
sashes with cambered heads. Bargeboarded gables over wings with 2 lower
roofs over main range. Large cement rendered axial ridge stack to centre
with 2 diagonally set shafts. C17 extension to rear right. Fronted with
stock bricks, rat trap bonded. Tiled roof with separate ridge. 2
storeys. 4 unequally spaced bays. Central entrance. Glazing bar sashes
with cambered heads. Large axial ridge stack to right of centre with 4
diagonally set shafts. Stack at junction with main range. Lower 2 storey
extension to far right with lean-to addition. To rear of this wing are
an entrance under a porch and 2 Yorkshire casements. Left and longer
crosswing of main range is the small C16 house, refronted and altered.
Cross axial ridge stack and rear gable end external stack. Interior: C16
cambered tie beam exposed on front wall of left crosswing. Clasped
purlin roof with queen struts. Jowled posts. Chimney inserted late
C16/early C17. Extension to rear right with roof of similar construction,
largely rebuilt. Two arms of Homestead Moat to S. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL2328201940

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26397546

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)