Mission Hall Cottage and Estate Office at Watersplace Farm south of B1004

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1205110
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: Mission Hall Cottage and Estate Office at Watersplace Farm south of B1004
Statutory Address:: Mission Hall Cottage and Estate Office at Watersplace Farm south of B1004

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1205110
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: Mission Hall Cottage and Estate Office at Watersplace Farm south of B1004
Statutory Address 1:: Mission Hall Cottage and Estate Office at Watersplace Farm south of B1004

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Mission Hall Cottage and Estate Office at Watersplace Farm south of B1004

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 38426 14305

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 February 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

TL 31NW 5/63

WARE RURAL WATERSPLACE Mission Hall Cottage and Estate Office at Watersplace Farm south of B1004

II

Mission Hall and two attached houses, hall now an estate office. 1860's by Alfred Waterhouse for Easneye Estate of T F Buxton. Red brick with red tiled roof. Two-storeys, T-shaped group facing East with higher mission hall forming crosswing at North end. This is gabled with a large terra-cotta coat of arms in the bargeboarded gable, a central gabled open timber porch, and two-light casement windows at two levels. One and a half storeys, half-hipped house range extending to South has a tall central chimney with diagonally set shafts at each end of a wide middle stack. Two-light casement windows under flat arches. Upper floor windows rise through eaves as cabled dormers with bargeboards. An unusual combination of estate buildings.

Listing NGR: TL3842614305

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 356099
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.