Waterford Hall Farm House With Attached Barns and Stables

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

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356234

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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)

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