Description

GREAT GADDESDEN CLEMENTS END ROAD
TL 01 SW
(West side)
Ballingdon Bottom

3/74 Southings Farmhouse
26.1.67 (formerly listed as Southings Farmhouse,
Gaddesden Row)

GV II

Farmhouse. C16 or earlier former open hall house, C17 chimney inserted
in cross-passage and floor in hall, brick cased in C18, altered and
extended on N in C19. Timber frame exposed only on 1st floor on S,
infill panels and casing to house in red brick, sandier on S. Steep old
red tile roofs. An irregular, 2-storeys house, facing S, enclosing the N
side of the farmyard. A large 3-cells hall-house with a single long bay
to the hall, unheated parlour with cellar under on W, very wide
cross-passage in its own structural bay on E, and originally axially
divided service rooms in E end bay beyond. Adapted to lobby-entry plan
by building back-to-back fireplaces in stack occupying only W half of
former cross-passage, and throwing rest into single space with
partitions around former service rooms removed. S front has irregular
fenestration, the upper floor being lit by small casement windows and 3
swept dormers. 4 windows to ground floor. Door now into E part of
cross-passage, with garden door opposite to N. Cross-passage spanned by
2 heavy chamfered beams framed into cross-beams enclosing a central
space occupied by C17 chimney but possibly designed for a late C16
timber framed chimney replaced in C17. Interior has exposed framing with
wide-spaced studs, framing for blocked windows on upper floor of E bay,
curved tension braces in walls, jowled posts, cambered tie-beams,
clasped-purlin roof with long curved wind-braces, and square-butted
scarf joint in wallplate. Floor over hall carried on chamfered axial
beam jointed to chamfered cross-beams with mason-mitred junction of
chamfers. Large hall fireplace has been narrowed. Chamfered lintel and
oven formerly on N flank.

Listing NGR: TL0383413823

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26467832

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)