Description

TL 2825 WALKERN Finches End

HIGH STREET (east side)

8/1 Farmhouse at Finches Farm (opp.Stevenage Road) - I G.V.

Amend grade to read:- II

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Finches End TL 2825 WALKERN HIGH STREET (east side) 8/1 Farmhouse at Finches Farm (opp. Stevenage Road)

GV I

House. Late Cl7, extended in mid C19. Timber frame on stucco plinth, roughcast. Red brick SE wing extends as facing to S end. Steep hipped old red tile roofs. Catslide extension over rear outshut. A large 2-storeys and attics house facing W with hipped rear stair turret and 2-storeys later rear wing. Entrance now by parapeted red brick porch at S but probably built as a lobby- entry, central chimney plan house. Large central chimney C18 serving a corner fireplace in parlour at S and hall in centre, with vaulted alcove in sides of stack on ground floor. N room still fitted and floored as a dairy with chimney inserted at NW. Near symmetrical W front has 3 hipped dormer windows on the roof slope with 2-light casements, 4 flush box sash windows to 1st floor with 6/6 panes, and 3 windows to ground floor, a 2-light casement to the dairy, a rectangular hipped bay window with triple sashes to the middle room, and a similar triple sash to the parlour. Canted grey brick sash window on S end. Front door in porch half-glazed with coloured margin lights. Interior has 2 Cl7 doors of overlapping moulded planks to dairy and game larder, closed-string oak newel stair with square balusters, rising through 3 floors, and 2-panel late C18 doors generally.

Listing NGR: TL2882725912

External Links

• Wikidata Q26394686

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