Wades Farm (EHER 29495)

An early 15th and 16th century timber framed hall house which was altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is now divided into three cottages.

June 1962. Grade II listed. An early 15th and 16th century timber framed hall house which was altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is now divided into three cottages. Plastered and roofed with handmade red clay tiles. It it a former two-bay hall aligned approx. NW-SE, aspect SW, with one-bay integral storeyed service end to SE. There is a late 16th century chimney stack inserted in SE bay of hall, and inserted floor in both bays; a late 16th century parlour/solar crosswing to NW, jettied to SW, and external chimney stack on NW wall, rebuilt in around 1980; and an 18th/19th century extension to SE (approximately 1 metre long) as well as 19th/20th century rear extension. <1> See photos <2> <3>. NRHE data transfer: Wades Farm was originally one timber framed hall house, dating from the early fifteenth century, with additions in the sixteenth century. The house was altered in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, divided into five cottages before the record photographs contained in this file were taken (numbered 1-5) and then altered to form three cottages afterwards (numbered 1,2 and 4). It's likely that this set of photographs was commissioned to record the condition of the building before alteration works were to be carried out. The building is now divided into two dwellings, numbered 1 and 4. File contains contact prints only, created from two sizes of negative. <4>