WATERFORD HALL FARM HOUSE WITH ATTACHED BARNS AND STABLES

WATERFORD HALL FARM HOUSE WITH ATTACHED BARNS AND STABLES, A602

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1089084
Date first listed:: 24-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: WATERFORD HALL FARM HOUSE WITH ATTACHED BARNS AND STABLES
Statutory Address:: WATERFORD HALL FARM HOUSE WITH ATTACHED BARNS AND STABLES, A602

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1089084
Date first listed:: 24-Nov-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: WATERFORD HALL FARM HOUSE WITH ATTACHED BARNS AND STABLES
Statutory Address 1:: WATERFORD HALL FARM HOUSE WITH ATTACHED BARNS AND STABLES, A602
Statutory Address 2:: WATERFORD HALL FARM HOUSE WITH ATTACHED BARNS AND STABLES, HIGH ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WATERFORD HALL FARM HOUSE WITH ATTACHED BARNS AND STABLES, A602
Statutory Address:: WATERFORD HALL FARM HOUSE WITH ATTACHED BARNS AND STABLES, HIGH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Stapleford
National Grid Reference:: TL 31132 15401

Details

STAPLEFORD HIGH ROAD (A602) TL 31 NW (East side) Waterford 4/124 Waterford Hall Farm House 24.11.66 with attached Barns and Stables (formerly listed as Waterford Hall House and Farm buildings) GV II

House. c.1600, extended in C17, refronted and altered in early C19. English bond red brick, later stock brick, all colourwashed. Timber frame to addition, rendered. Steeply pitched tiled roof. 3 bay lobby entry with rear stair wing, early 2 bay addition to right. 2 storeys and attic. Ground floor: central entrance with early C19 ornamental iron porch, triple arcade on slender columns, coved head. Recessed door has pilastered jambs, rectangular fanlight, bracketed hood. Flanking C19 tripartite sashes, that to left full length. First floor: central 12 pane sash and outer tripartite sashes. Two 2 light box dormers. Rebuilt central ridge stack with 2 diagonally set stock brick shafts. Gable end moulded kneelers to coped parapets. Left end small attic sash, tumbled in brickwork. To rear: central gabled staircase wing with tumbled in brickwork, small sashes. To right an original external stack with offsets, moulded projection to side, 2 tall diagonal shafts with moulded bases, rebuilt oversailing caps. To left a first floor original. low window, blocked with timber sill, hood mould, ground floor lean-to outshut. C19 addition to left of stair wing with a stack on return with offsets and 2 diagonal shafts. Attached to right of main house and set back slightly is lower 2 bay early addition. Ground floor: canted bay window to left, 4 light flush frame casement and a door with a simple bracketed hood to right. First floor 2 flush frame 4 light casements. Sprocket eaves. Right gable end is brick with kneelers to coped parapet. Central cross axial ridge stack with 2 diagonal shafts. Catslide roof over continuous lean-to outshut to rear with a gabled dormer. Interior: newel stair, stop chamfered bearers and door frames. Attached to right and extending to enclose three sides of farmyard are a large group of C18 and C19 outbuildings. Immediately to right of house is dairy, coach house and hay loft. Ground floor stock brick with 2 double doors, 2 single doors and a small casement, first floor weatherboarded with a loft door and a leaded 2 light casement. Further right a barn, C19, timber frame, brick base, weatherboarded, corrugated sheet roofing. 5 bays. Central gabled midstrey with double doors, flanking lean-tos, that to left stock brick. Interior: straight braces to tie beams, queen struts to collars, butt purlins. A 2 bay weatherboarded range to right with pantiles and corrugated sheet roofing links to a taller C18 or C19 barn at right angles. Timber frame on brick base, weatherboarded. Tiled roof. 10 bays with openings to centre of each 5 bay section. Gabled midstrey with flanking lean-tos to rear of section nearer house. Interior: some curved and some straight braces to tie beams, angled struts to lower purlins, collars to upper purlins. Completing yard are C19 stock brick cow sheds and stables. Tiled roofs. 3 bays of open fronted sheds with pantiles link to barn. Stables with 4 doors and a barred window. (VCH 1912: Pevsner 1977).

Listing NGR: TL3113215401

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 356234
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.