Description

MARKYATE PICKFORD ROAD TL 0616 (North side) 8/180 Nos. 8, 8A, 8C, 26.1.67 8B, 10, 10A (formerly listed as No. 4 Home Farmhouse)

GV II

2 Houses, now 6 properties. Late C17 or earlier, early C18 brick casing, mid C18 east house, both much altered internally during subdivision in 1975. Said to be timber framed, exterior in dark red brick with random grey headers and light red brick dressings. Similar in east house but walling bricks a lighter red. Steep old red tile roofs, with hipped W end carried down over end-outshut. A long 2-storeys range fronting pavement facing S, with older part a symmetrical 4-windows long front with blank recess over centre door, and end chimneys. Light red brick used for ovolo bedmould to corbelled eaves band, for corner and jamb dressings, the chamfered plinth, plat-band, and alternately with black headers in segmental arches to the ground floor windows. Flush-box sash windows with 6/6 panes. Pedimented wooden doorcase with fluted pilasters (renewed). Ground floor of W outshut set back has English-bond below a plat-band, matching sash window, and large round-headed window lighting the roofspace. 2-storeys, 2 windows wide east part at a slight angle to the older house is a careful copy with the age difference betrayed by a rather sandier-red brick. It has 2 windows on each floor and matching (renewed) doorcase next the east corner of the older part. 2 modern dormer windows. The block has 2 2-storeys gabled rear wings carried down to E and W as outshuts. Roof of older part has staggered butt-purlins and straight inclined braces to lower angles of trusses. Older part said to have an early C19 staircase. Formerly a farmhouse called Mayfield, later Jordan's Farm, the house was the house of Thomas Pickford, founder of the well-known firm of carriers who died in 1811 and whose tomb stands in Flamstead churchyard (q.v.). Photos in NMR show timber framing exposed in rear wings during alterations c.1975. (VCH (1908)187).

Listing NGR: TL0613116312

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