THUNDER HALL AND BOUNDARY WALL TO WADESMILL ROAD

THUNDER HALL AND BOUNDARY WALL TO WADESMILL ROAD, 1-6, THUNDERCOURT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217451
Date first listed:: 08-May-1950
List Entry Name:: THUNDER HALL AND BOUNDARY WALL TO WADESMILL ROAD
Statutory Address:: THUNDER HALL AND BOUNDARY WALL TO WADESMILL ROAD, 1-6, THUNDERCOURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217451
Date first listed:: 08-May-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Sep-1995
List Entry Name:: THUNDER HALL AND BOUNDARY WALL TO WADESMILL ROAD
Statutory Address 1:: THUNDER HALL AND BOUNDARY WALL TO WADESMILL ROAD, 1-6, THUNDERCOURT

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:: THUNDER HALL AND BOUNDARY WALL TO WADESMILL ROAD, 1-6, THUNDERCOURT

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County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Ware
National Grid Reference:: TL 35622 14761

Details

WARE TOWN

TL3514NE THUNDERCOURT 829-1/7/169 (South side) 08/05/50 Nos.1-6 (consec) Thunder Hall and boundary wall to Wadesmill Road (Formerly Listed as: THE BOURNE Thunder Hall)

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Formerly known as: Thunder Hall WADESMILL ROAD. House, now subdivided. Late C17, extended C18, altered and extended C19, converted to flats 1972. Architect John Snellgrove Associates, Architect for 1850-52 remodelling, George Godwin. South block late C17, stucco-faced brick, old tiled roof, with moulded parapeted gable ends and central attic, with parapeted gable containing one sash window, with glazing bars beneath moulded stucco dripmould, red brick chimneystack with 4 clustered octagonal shafts, connected by oversailing cap. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics, central projection 1:1:1 sash windows with glazing bars under dripmoulds on south elevation. North wing C18, altered mid C19, red brick, old tiled roof with lead hips. North elevation with 2 tall sash windows on first floor with glazing bars, under rubbed flat arches, dentil cornice, lean-to at left and French casement windows at right beneath segmental arch on ground floor. Mid C19 remodelling included rendered pinnacles, with corbelled bases, and moulded ogee caps added to north elevation, mullioned casement windows with stucco dripmoulds and modelled head, on ground floor, and above first floor windows of east elevation, and moulded band at first floor cill level. To south and east, Godwin added single storey stucco-faced cloisters with Tudor arches, with dripmoulds, buttresses and a panelled parapet with cusped quatrefoil ornament, and arched 2 light windows on south, leading to tall carriageway arch with twin leaf panelled doors, beneath a Tudor arch with dripmould above. INTERIOR: half glazed entrance door in Tudor arch leads from north of cloister, to entrance hall of house which has C19 panelling. C19 bracket stair with moulded handrail leads to first floor, and continues as late C17 close string open well newel staircase, with bobbin balusters and moulded handrail, to second floor attics. Fireplace in south-east room on ground floor contains mid C19 arched fireplace, with marble tablet inscribed `This marble from the room in which the Emperor Napoleon died was brought from St Helena by Capt. Amb. Fred. Proctor, AD 1833'. Grounds and land to north altered by modern residential development of Thundercourt in early 1970s, extinguishing original road access from The Bourne. Boundary wall to Wadesmill Road partly in red and yellow Hitch patent brickwork, with Hitch coping bricks. (Edwards E and Perman D: Ware's Past In Pictures: Ware: 1991-: 17; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N (rev. Cherry B): Hertfordshire: Harmondsworth: 1977-: 380; Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England): An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire: London: 1910-: 230; Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 14; Ware Tithe Map: 1845-; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-).

Listing NGR: TL3562214761

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Legacy System number:: 412401
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Edwards, , Perman, , Wares Past in Pictures, (1991), 17
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 380
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)

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