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Latitude: 51.8796 / 51°52'46"N
Longitude: -0.0332 / 0°1'59"W
OS Eastings: 535476
OS Northings: 221945
OS Grid: TL354219
Mapcode National: GBR K9T.4DQ
Mapcode Global: VHGP9.C0SX
Plus Code: 9C3XVXH8+RP
Entry Name: Farmhouse at High Trees Farm (Along Track 200 Metres from Lane)
Listing Date: 4 December 1951
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1296238
English Heritage Legacy ID: 161271
ID on this website: 101296238
Location: Levens Green, East Hertfordshire, SG11
County: Hertfordshire
District: East Hertfordshire
Civil Parish: Great Munden
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: The Mundens
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Farmhouse
Beggarmans Green TL 32 SE GREAT MUNDEN BEGGARMANS LANE (north side)
5/36 Farmhouse at High Trees Farm 4.12.51 (along track 200m from lane)
GV II*
House. Early C17, possibly remodelling a medieval hall in the centre, renovated in C19. Timber frame plastered. Ground floor of front range renewed in masonry plastered. Steep old red tile hipped roofs. An L-plan house facing W. The higher front range has a central jettied hall and 2 storeys wings at each end. Parlour wing at N projects at rear and has a winding stair in the angle. Service wing at S has a lower 2-storeys central chimney range extending to rear (E) of it. Cross passage at lower end of hall entered by present front door. Large lateral rear wall chimney to hall with 2 flues and rear chimneys to crosswings. W front has 4 windows to 1st floor, one window to ground floor of each wing and a larger window to hall on left of gabled C20 porch to entrance door. C20 casement windows. Hall chimney has 2 conjoined diagonal flues. Interior has chamfered and stopped cross and axial beams in hall and a remarkable ovolo-moulded timber screen with 3 panels in height and dentilled cornice over a plain frieze with fluted brackets. Early C17 overmantle to fireplace of chamber over hall with fluted pilasters and Doric frieze, now in a passage flanked by scratch moulded oak panelling. Clasped-purlin queen-strut roof with slender windbraces of mid C17 in roof over hall and S wing. Older clasped-purlin roof over N wing. (RCHM (1911) 104-5: VCH (1912) 124: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3547621945
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