Ward's Farmhouse

WARD'S FARMHOUSE, GLADFEN HALL ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1337935
Date first listed:
10-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Ward's Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
WARD'S FARMHOUSE, GLADFEN HALL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1337935
Date first listed:
10-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Ward's Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
WARD'S FARMHOUSE, GLADFEN HALL 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.

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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:
WARD'S FARMHOUSE, GLADFEN HALL ROAD

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

County:
Essex
District:
Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:
Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural
National Grid Reference:
TL 81055 27834

Details

TL 82 NW GREENSTEAD GREEN AND GLADFEN HALL ROAD HALSTEAD RURAL (south side)

5/148 Ward's Farmhouse

- II

House. C16, altered in C19. Timber framed, plastered with weatherboarded dado, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Single range facing SE, with C18/19 external stack at each end. Full-length single-storey lean-to rear extension, partly weatherboarded, roofed with slate. C20 single-storey extension to right, with vertical planked walls and roof of corrugated iron. 2 storeys. Ground floor, one mid-C19 sash of 6 lights and 2 early C19 horizontally sliding sashes of 6 + 6 lights. First floor, 2 early C19 horizontally sashes of 4 + 4 lights. One 4-panel door, one plain door. Good early C20 pargetting at front, with fan patterns in panels, and some C18 pargetting on rear wall. One horizontally sliding sash of 4 + 4 lights in left return. 2 bays of C16 framing with jowled posts and heavy knee-like braces to tiebeams.

Listing NGR: TL8105527834

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
115987
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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