Description

HEMPSTEAD
TG 13 NW
3/29 The Red House
II
Farmhouse, early C18, brick with patterned headers, plain tiles to front,
pantiles to rear. Single range, 3 bays. 2 storeys with attic and cellar.
Gable end stacks with rebuilt shafts. Plinth with flint at base, platband,
dentil cornice. Symmetrical facade: central doorway has porch with Tuscan
entablature supported by two columns with upper part fluted, lower part
smooth; 5 cross windows in pairs to bays 1 and 3 to ground and first floor,
some with original leaded panes, fittings and pintle hinges, those to ground
floor in reset openings. Plaque on left hand side to Samuel Fowles, d.1906,
head keeper of the Hempstead Estate. Both gables with parapets, tumbled
brickwork and eaves platband. Continuous outshut at rear, raised to l½
storeys, with fenestration of 1980's.

Listing NGR: TG1022938220

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26654737

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)