Upper Wants End
UPPER WANTS END, PLOUGH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347454
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Wants End
- Statutory Address:
- UPPER WANTS END, PLOUGH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347454
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Wants End
- Statutory Address 1:
- UPPER WANTS END, PLOUGH LANE
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:
- UPPER WANTS END, PLOUGH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- King's Walden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL1615824523
Details
TL 12 SE KINGS WALDEN PLOUGH LANE
(West side)
4/38 Upper Wants End
GV II
Farmhouse, now a private house. Early C16 former open hall house, chimney and floor inserted in C17, restored early C20. Timber frame exposed with close-studding to ground floor and plastered infill panels. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys, 3-bays house facing E set back in yard. Lean-to extension on S end and framed catslide rear outshut to N bay. The narrower middle-bay and the North bay together comprised the
former hall open to the roof. S bay of 2 storeys from beginning with closed truss and partition on its N side. In C17 a large internal chimney was built in hall rising against S face of open truss, the floor was extended through the hall and the S rooms thrown into the rest resulting in a 2-cells, internal-chimney, lobby-entry plan house of 2 storeys. A passageway was cut through the chimney probably in the 1920s. E front has 2 3-lights flush casement leaded windows to each floor and small 2-lights ovolo moulded window over door. Large internal chimney with rebuilt shafts and corbelled tops. N gable shows complete frame with jowled posts, unjowled middle post, mid-height rail jointed in-line, attic window, and 2 purlin ends. Interior has chamfered and stopped joists and beam in N room, tension braces in walls of S bay at 1st floor, and hollow chamfered truss and curved braces to open truss of hall. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1615824523
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162830
- 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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