Building record 1245010000 - HERTFORDSHIRE HOUSE

Grade II. C18. Red brick hipped old tile roof with central pediment and eaves cornice. Three storeys, stone floor bands. Nine double-hung sashes 4 panes wide, gauged brick flat arches. Doric porch to round arched doorway with radial fanlight. South elevation has 2-storey bow window to left, two single storey bow windows on right, all later additions one original sash window to first floor and two to second floor. Modern link on north connects to barn incorporated with wing with cottage at north end. Brick, rendering, some weatherboard on south side. Tiled roof, modern hipped dormers at south end. Cart entry with modern brick arch on north side, boarded gable on south with pigeon loft. Interior: C18 4 bay barn with curved braces to tie beams, alternate raking posts and queenstrut/collar trusses (B1).
There is documentary evidence to suggest that Hertfordshire Farm was renamed after 1680, having previously been known as 'Reeve's Farm'. In 1682 a John Child was paying poor rate for Hertfordshire Farm. In 1680 his assessment had been on 'Mr Reeve's farm', and the sum corresponds to the 80 acres of Hertfordshire Farm. In 1675 the land of 'Henry Reeve, gentleman' was said to lie west of Coleslett Field. The evidence is conclusive: 'Mr Reeve's farm' was Hertfordshire Farm. The Reeves family had been there many years - Henry Reeve was the grandson of Cornelius Reeve,
who first appears in the records for Coleshill in 1586.
A large barn, 51' x 16' (15.7 x 4.9 m), survives, but the curved struts supporting the purlins point to a building date in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. (B2).