Ware Farmhouse
WARE FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141246
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Ware Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WARE FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141246
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Ware Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WARE FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
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:
- WARE FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- High Roding
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 60146 16989
Details
TL 60 17 HIGH RODING THE STREET
4/17 Ware Farmhouse
GV II
Hall house, early C16, altered in late C16, extended in C19 and C20. Timber- framed, plastered and weatherboarded, roof tiled. Hall of 2 bays aligned NE-SW, with parlour/solar crosswing of 3 bays at SW end, jettied to SE. Service end missing. Chimney stack inserted in NE bay of hall and floor inserted in late C16. C19 and C20 extensions to NW and NE. Three external chimney stacks. 2 storeys and single-storey with attics, roof of crosswing half- hipped. Ground floor, 3 C20 casement windows and C20 gabled porch; first floor, one C20 casement window above jetty, one in gabled dormer. Framing partly exposed internally. Jowled storey posts, curved tension bracing trenched to inside of studs. One arched brace to central tiebeam of hall. Doorhead in hall/parlour partition with flat arch. Roof of hall rebuilt as clasped purlin construction. Roof of crosswing originally of crownpost construction, but crownpost on SE tiebeam missing, others not visible. Exceptionally large binding-joist between middle and SE bays of hall, with text 'Memento mori' painted in white letters on brown ground on SE aide of it, C18 or early C19 lettering. Common joists of square and near-square section. Brickwork of inserted stack in hall fully exposed. RCHM 18.
Listing NGR: TL6014616989
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352757
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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