Wades Hall

WADES HALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1221628
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:
Wades Hall
Statutory Address:
WADES HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1221628
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:
Wades Hall
Statutory Address 1:
WADES HALL

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WADES HALL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Essex
District:
Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:
Ugley
National Grid Reference:
TL 50792 28000

Details

In the entry for the following:

UGLEY 1. 5222 TL 52 NW 22/769 26.11.51 Wades Hall

The description shall be amended to read:

Cross wing of former house. Mid C16. C20 weatherboard over timber frame, which has close-studded timbers and tension bracing: some wattle and daub infill survives. Gabled old plain tile roof; mid/late C19 brick left lateral stack, and remains of C16 brick right lateral stack. 2-unit plan, with central transverse through-entry. Late C19 four-pane sash and 3-light casement to gable end; window openings to left side wall of 2-storey, 3 window range. Interior: timber framing survives, except to front half of right side wall; reused late Medieval wall posts with heavy jowled heads, ground-floor room to front has late C16 panelling, moulded beam with foliate stops and chamfered segmental-arched fireplace; late C16 panelled door to right. Transverse through-entry, flanked by close-studded partitions, has stop chamfered architrave to doorway on left. Stop-chamfered beam supported on jowled post to room at rear. 4 A-frame collar trusses with stop-chamfered wall plates, clasped purlins and curved windbraces. This building comprises the former chamber block of Wades Hall: the eastern wall range was destroyed in the winter of 1987/8(RCHM ; Essex, Vol.l,p.328).

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UGLEY 1. 5222 Wades Hall TL 52 NW 22/769 26.11.51

II

2. Mid C16 timber-framed building fronted in modern weather-boarding. Built on a half H plan with wings extending to the north and gabled on the south. Two storeys. Four window range. Roof tiled, with an original central chimney stack with 4 octagonal shafts on a square base. (RCHM 11).

Listing NGR: TL5079228000

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
413457
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)

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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