OLD FARM COTTAGES AT WATERSPLACE FARM SOUTH OF B1004

OLD FARM COTTAGES AT WATERSPLACE FARM SOUTH OF B1004, 1 AND 2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1089150
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: OLD FARM COTTAGES AT WATERSPLACE FARM SOUTH OF B1004
Statutory Address:: OLD FARM COTTAGES AT WATERSPLACE FARM SOUTH OF B1004, 1 AND 2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1089150
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: OLD FARM COTTAGES AT WATERSPLACE FARM SOUTH OF B1004
Statutory Address 1:: OLD FARM COTTAGES AT WATERSPLACE FARM SOUTH OF B1004, 1 AND 2

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:: OLD FARM COTTAGES AT WATERSPLACE FARM SOUTH OF B1004, 1 AND 2

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Wareside
National Grid Reference:: TL 38505 14367

Details

TL 31NW WARE RURAL WATERSPLACE 5/61 Old Farm Cottages (No 1 and 2)at Watersplace Farm South of B1004 II

Manor house, now 2 houses. C16 or earlier probably for Sir Thomas Bourchier (d. 1492) or Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex (d. 1540). S part rebuilt in later C17. S and W fronts cased in brick in mid C19. Timber frame plastered with a steep old red tile roofs hipped to W but gabled to E. W front and S side cased in yellow brickwork. 2-storeys but C17 central stair rises to former attics. The N range (No 2) is a 2-bay crosswing probably of a former open hall extending to S. It has one large room on each floor, and was entered from the hall by the wide arched doorway in the S wall of its E bay, now blocked by the staircase. It has a collar-purlin roof and a central cruciform crown-post with 4-way arched bracing. In the later C17 the hall was demolished and a 2-storeys and attics, 2-unit, lobby-entry central-chimney house (No 1) was built some 3 metres to the S of, and parallel with, the cross-wing. A dog-leg stair with sinuous splat balusters was built in the space between, approached by a long entrance hall from the W, later occupied by a C19 parlour (now in No 2). The W end of the old cross-wing roof was altered to a hipped form and a central chimney was inserted in that wing. The C17 work has heavy chamfered cross-beams, unjowled posts, a butt-purl in roof with tennoned rafters and some smoke-blackened rafters reused from the old hall. Symmetrical 3-window brick W front with central 4-panel door half-glazed, recessed sash windows with flat arches to ground floor and 2/2 panes. Irregular S front with similar door between a canted bay window on right with small panes, and sash window on left set in a rectangular wall-recess probably intended for a small conservatory. Plastered N front has a 4-light casement window to the NE room. Internal features include: 2 pairs of scratch- moulded, panelled, cupboard doors with lozenge motif carved on upper panels, on 1st floor; unusual bolection moulded wood fire surround with a keel mould made up of symmetrical cyma-curves linked by a small roll; 2-panel doors and H-hinges; and heavy curved knee-braces supporting the main cross-beam of the N range, now in cupboards flanking the central chimney. The house appears to represent the capital messuage called Waters Place of the manor of Waters, held of the manor of Ware, first named in the reign of Henry VII. Sir Thomas Bourchier died seised of it in 1492. His heir Henry, Earl of Essex, retained the house when he alienated the manor of Waters in 1505 and it became known as a separate manor or tenement of Watersplace (VCH (1912) 390-1).

Listing NGR: TL3850514367

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Legacy System number:: 356100
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 390-1

Legal

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