The Whare
THE WHARE, ALBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1220772
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Whare
- Statutory Address:
- THE WHARE, ALBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1220772
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Whare
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WHARE, ALBURY 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:
- THE WHARE, ALBURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Hadham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 44022 22747
Details
TL 4422 LITTLE HADHAM ALBURY ROAD (east side) Little Hadham-on-Ash
8/7 The Whare
22.2.67
GV II*
House. Late C15-early C16. Large, T-plan, hall house facing S with cross wing at E. Floor and large chimney inserted in hall range in C17 and roof reconstructed. 2 storeys, timberframed and plastered, with steep old red tile gabled roofs. Small lean-to rear extension under catslide tiled roof in the angle. N gable of E wing crossed by a dripboard at eaves level and gable above projects. Large red brick central chimney with 4 octagonal shafts, in line across hall range. Modern chimney at centre of E wing. 3-window front with door in line with central chimney. 3- light and 2-light wooden casements. E wing built as 2 storeys and 2 structural bays giving 2 rooms on each floor and stair hatch in SW corner now extended for present stair. Tension bracing in walls and a collar purlin crown post roof with straight braces to purlin only. The lower part of a 4-light unglazed diamond mullion window is exposed on the Ground floor N wall next to the NE corner. A similar window, blocked externally, survives in the Ewall of both the upper rooms, and the head mortices and associated shutter groove of a similar window on the straight underside of the cambered tie beam in both the N and S gables. The same edge-halved scarf with bridled butts is found in the wall plates of both the cross wing and the hall range but they are structurally separate. There is close studding and a long curved brace notched into the inner face of the W end. Angled jowled posts and a severed tie beam at E end of hall range. Roof reconstructed in clasped purlin construction. The same chamfered and hollow stopped joists carried on a chamfered axial beam form the inserted floor in both parts of the hall range. The central chimney has a wide fireplace with stopped and chamfered lintel in the middle room (hall) but both the W parlour and the chamber over (former stair in SW corner) have depressed 4-centred chamfered brick arched fireplaces, plastered in parlour. Hall fireplace served by 2 flues. Formerly in the same ownership as C16 Bridge End (the former Yewhurst Farm) 3 metres to S. RCHM consider this may be an example of the unit- system, for housing separate households, jointly farming with Bridge End, the same land (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL4402222747
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394480
- 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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