Widfordbury Farm and Widfordbury House on West of Churchyard
WIDFORDBURY FARM AND WIDFORDBURY HOUSE ON WEST OF CHURCHYARD, WARE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101925
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Widfordbury Farm and Widfordbury House on West of Churchyard
- Statutory Address:
- WIDFORDBURY FARM AND WIDFORDBURY HOUSE ON WEST OF CHURCHYARD, WARE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101925
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Widfordbury Farm and Widfordbury House on West of Churchyard
- Statutory Address 1:
- WIDFORDBURY FARM AND WIDFORDBURY HOUSE ON WEST OF CHURCHYARD, WARE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WIDFORDBURY FARM AND WIDFORDBURY HOUSE ON WEST OF CHURCHYARD, WARE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Widford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 41280 15826
Details
TL 4115 WIDFORD WARE ROAD (north side)
5/1 Widfordbury Farm and Widfordbury House 4.12.51 on W of churchyard GV II
House, now 2 houses. Cl7 or earlier. Timberframed and roughcast with brick casing to lower floor-at front. Steep old red tiled gabled roofs. 2 storeys and cellar L-shaped house now divided with 1 storey C18/C19 brick and tile kitchen extension on W. 4 windows main range (Widfordbury Farm) lies E-W facing S. Modern casements and 2 storeys canted bay and tilehung apron. E wing (Widfordbury House) is higher, hipped to N end, and has early C19 flush sash windows with 8/8 panes on S and W, moulded cusped bargeboard and 4-panelled door with moulded architrave and flat hood on shaped brackets, probable jetty on S end underbuilt in colourwash brick. Large projecting side chimney to E wing. Modern panelled door central under flat hood. Rear of main block has a 2 storeys projecting brick gable with chimney and floorband. Also lean-to extension with very tall buttress chimney. Old doorway in E wall of E wing at cellar level reported by RCHM (1911) 241. Widfordbury is the manorial centre owned by Bermondsey Abbey up to the Dissolution and was leased to the Adam family in 1548 as a farm (HLHS (1979) 30). An historic timberframed house at the manorial centre. Part of a picturesque group with its farm buildings and the church in this part of the Conservation Area. An important landscape feature with the church when viewed across the Ash Valley from the N.
Listing NGR: TL4128015826
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160043
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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