Description

HERTFORD

TL3211 QUEEN'S ROAD
817-1/22/174 (South side)
02/05/90 Dunkirk Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse, now house. Late C16 or early C17 incorporating some
earlier elements; altered C18 and C19; restored 1989-90.
Timber-frame with wattle and daub infill (replaced) on brick
plinth; with pargeted late C20 rendered cladding. Plain tile
roof. Brick stacks. Outshut has weatherboard return and Welsh
slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with partial attic. Three-and-a-half cells
with entrance lobby and stair half-cell between right-hand
cells; side outshut addition on right. Part-glazed 4-panel
door under bracketed pent tile canopy. Former door to outshut
now a window. Windows are late C20 sashes having 12-pane upper
sashes and 3-pane lower sashes; 3 to ground floor, 4 above,
with paired small 1-light windows between two 1st-floor,
left-hand windows. Gabled dormer with 6-pane top-hinged
casement to entrance bay. External end stacks, that on right
rebuilt, and ridge stack between left cells, all having
diagonally set flues.
INTERIOR: timber-frame exposed, with some timbers C19 or C20
replacements. Original partition walls survive, rising up to
roof, except for that between 2nd cell and entrance half cell;
chamfered spine-beams with bar-and-cyma and lambs tongue
stops; on 1st floor, chamfered doorways, some old doors and
elliptically-arched fireplace in left room; in roof collared
tie-beam trusses with studs and infill, old rafters, clasped
purlins, and straight wind-braces. The stair is late C18 early
C19, having close string, columnar newel, and stick balusters.
Outshut has stone flag floor and 2nd half C19 range.
HISTORIAL NOTE: during the course of restoration work a mid
C16 farthing was found below the floor of the left-hand
ground-floor room, and an iron casement with diagonal-leading
behind the rear wall; there was formerly a pump and long stone
sink in the outshut.
Dunkirk Farmhouse North Side, adjoining to rear, is now a
separate residence and is not of special interest.

Listing NGR: TL3272811620

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559069

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)