Description

TL 71 SE HATFIELD PEVEREL SPORTSMAN'S LANE
NOUNSLEY
(north-east side)

5/72 Priory Farmhouse

GV II

House. Early C17, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with
handmade red clay tiles. 3-bay main range facing SW with axial stack and
external stack at left end, and 2-bay crosswing to right. Single-storey lean-to
extension at left end. Main range of one storey with attics, crosswing of 2
storeys. 3-window range of C20 casements, including 2 in gabled dormers. Door
in left side of C20 porch. Chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops,
plain joists of vertical section. Jowled posts, some exposed studding. Diamond
mortices in the rear wall probably imply re-use of timber rather than unglazed
windows in this building. Large wood-burning hearth facing to left, with
re-used mantel beam from a timber-framed chimney, and 0.33 metre walls of C17
bricks. Smaller wood-burning hearth facing to right with internal brick splays,
and chamfered mantel beam with lamb's tongue stops. Bread oven in rebricked
hearth at left end, door missing. Originally there was a lobby-entrance in
front of the stack, doorway now blocked. RCHM 19.

Listing NGR: TL7980210427

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26440202

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings