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Latitude: 51.7357 / 51°44'8"N
Longitude: -0.3272 / 0°19'37"W
OS Eastings: 515610
OS Northings: 205430
OS Grid: TL156054
Mapcode National: GBR H8J.242
Mapcode Global: VHGPQ.8MWS
Plus Code: 9C3XPMPF+74
Entry Name: Barn and Attached Stable on East Side of Sopwell Home Farm
Listing Date: 18 October 1990
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1347184
English Heritage Legacy ID: 163531
Location: St. Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1
County: Hertfordshire
Electoral Ward/Division: Sopwell
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: St Albans St Peter
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
TL 10 NE COTTONMILL LANE
(SOUTH SIDE OFF)
24/308 Barn and attached stable on
east side of Sopwell Home Farm
II GV
Barn and attached stable. Probably first half C18. Timber-framed with weatherboard
cladding on brick plinths; right wall of barn of red-brown brick in Flemish bond;
plain tile roofs. 3-bay barn with central cart-entry and lower 3-bay stable
(probably formerly a cowhouse) on left. Front of barn masked by C20 covered yard
which is not of special interest. Brick gable wall has eaves band and stepped gable
to raised verge with brick-on-edge coping. Stable has central stable door flanked
by slatted windows (most slats removed) Interior: barn: rear winnowing door
(apposite cart entry) boarded across. Frame has large scantling unjowelled posts
with chamfered arch braces to tie-beam, queen struts, clasped purlins, old rafters,
later plank ridge-piece; sole plate, mid-rails, replacement studs and diagonal
braces. Brick wall shows position of former braces. Stable has unjowelled posts
with long arched braces to wall-plates and tie-beams; queen struts; clasped purlins;
old rafters; at junction with barn, collared queen post truss. The left and front
walls have C19 studding and braces. The framing of the barn has similarities to that
of the barn at Praewood Farm (Hemel Hempstead Road, qv).
Listing NGR: TL1561005430
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