Images from a Building Survey of Faulkners End Farm, Harpenden 2017-2018
Helen Parslow, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5284/1084797. How to cite using this DOI
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1084797
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Introduction
This collection comprises a historic building record and site photographs from a building recording survey of a grade II* farmhouse and Victorian barn carried out by Albion Archaeology between Feb 2017 and Sep 2018 prior to development work.
Planning and listed building consent was granted by St Albans City and District Council for development work at Faulkner's End Farm, Roundwood Lane, Harpenden. The development consists of the conversion of a Victorian barn into office units, a home gym, a two bedroomed residential unit and construction of a new stable block and farm office. The farmhouse is a grade II* listed and the Victorian barn is considered to be curtilage listed. The planning and listed building consents include a condition requiring a Level 2 historic building record. Albion Archaeology was commissioned to undertake the historic building recording.
The farm buildings being converted consist of a range of late 19th-century and later buildings located on the western side of the historic farmyard. Historic maps show that the buildings in this part of the farmyard were redeveloped at some time between 1878 and 1897. The main group of buildings consists of an L-shaped brick range built in the late 19th century. This consists of a cart shed and granary over, a barn, stables and one other compartment. A two-bay timber-framed structure remained from a demolished range of shelter sheds. The shelter sheds were originally built as part of the late 19th-century redevelopment of the farm, but appear to have been altered or rebuilt at some time between 1897 and 1922. A brick lean-to extension at the north end of the buildings appears to have been constructed in the 1950s.
