Waterford Hall Farm House with Attached Barns and Stables

Waterford Hall Farm House with Attached Barns and Stables

A house dating to around 1600, extended in the 17th century, and refronted and altered in the early 19th century, with attached 18th and 19th century agricultural buildings. The house is constructed in English bond red brick with later stock brick, all colourwashed. The timber frame of the addition is rendered. The roof is steeply pitched and tiled.

The main house is arranged as a 3 bay lobby entry with rear stair wing, with an early 2 bay addition to the right. It rises 2 storeys and attic. The ground floor features a central entrance with an early 19th century ornamental iron porch of triple arcade on slender columns with a coved head. The recessed door has pilastered jambs, a rectangular fanlight, and a bracketed hood. Flanking the entrance are 19th century tripartite sashes, the left one full length. The first floor has a central 12 pane sash and outer tripartite sashes. Two 2 light box dormers pierce the roof. A rebuilt central ridge stack has 2 diagonally set stock brick shafts. The gable ends have moulded kneelers to coped parapets.

The rear elevation shows a central gabled staircase wing with tumbled in brickwork and small sashes. To the right is an original external stack with offsets and moulded projection to the side, featuring 2 tall diagonal shafts with moulded bases and rebuilt oversailing caps. To the left is a first floor original low window, blocked with a timber sill and hood mould, with a ground floor lean-to outshut. A 19th century addition to the left of the stair wing contains a stack on the return with offsets and 2 diagonal shafts.

The 2 bay early addition attached to the right of the main house and set back slightly is lower in height. Its ground floor contains a canted bay window to the left with a 4 light flush frame casement, and a door with a simple bracketed hood to the right. The first floor has 2 flush frame 4 light casements. It features sprocket eaves and a brick gable end with kneelers to the coped parapet. A central cross axial ridge stack has 2 diagonal shafts. A catslide roof extends over a continuous lean-to outshut to the rear, which includes a gabled dormer.

Interior details include a newel stair with stop-chamfered bearers and door frames.

A large group of 18th and 19th century outbuildings is attached to the right of the house and encloses three sides of the farmyard. Immediately to the right of the house is a dairy, coach house and hay loft. The ground floor is stock brick with 2 double doors, 2 single doors and a small casement, while the first floor is weatherboarded with a loft door and a leaded 2 light casement.

Further right is a 19th century barn of timber frame construction on a brick base, weatherboarded with corrugated sheet roofing. It has 5 bays with a central gabled midstrey and double doors, flanked by lean-tos, the left one in stock brick. The interior contains straight braces to tie beams, queen struts to collars, and butt purlins.

A 2 bay weatherboarded range with pantiles and corrugated sheet roofing links to a taller 18th or 19th century barn at right angles. This barn is constructed with timber frame on a brick base, weatherboarded, with a tiled roof. It spans 10 bays with openings to the centre of each 5 bay section, a gabled midstrey with flanking lean-tos to the rear of the section nearer the house. The interior features some curved and some straight braces to tie beams, angled struts to lower purlins, and collars to upper purlins.

Completing the yard are 19th century stock brick cow sheds and stables with tiled roofs. Three bays of open fronted sheds with pantiles link to the barn. The stables have 4 doors and a barred window.