Description

GREAT GADDESDEN LEDGEMORE LANE TL 0l SW (East side) 3/105 Marsh Farm and attached - courtyard of outbuildings to W, along track 250m from lane - II

Farmhouse, now a private house, and attached outbuildings, C16, N parlour wing c.1600, altered and extended in C19 and C20. Timber frame, brick casing and extensions, all roughcast externally. Steep old red tile roofs. Outbuildings timber framed dark weatherboarded generally but thin red brickwork to NW corner. A 2-storeys, H-plan house facing E with 2-storeys extensions to NW and SW linking to former farm buildings around a rear courtyard now an enclosed garden. Irregular fenestration with casement windows and small panes. Entrance by glazed door under porch in middle of E front, which has been extended forward for lobby and new staircase with flatter-pitched front roof slope propped off surviving older roof structure. Roofspace has wide-span collar-and-side- purlin roof with tall queen-struts and smoke-blackened re-used rafters. N parlour-crosswing has external N sidewall chimney with pedimented strapwork oval motif in cut and moulded brickwork on outer face.

Listing NGR: TL0386411887

External Links

• Wikidata Q26394411

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)