Description

UGBOROUGH -
SX 6755

15/135 Ware Farmhouse and
9-2-61 adjoining outbuildings
to south-east

GV II

Farmhouse and adjoining dairy and outbuilding. Circa C16 remodelled in circa late
C18. Stone rubble. Slate roof with gabled and hipped ends. Extended 3-room and
through-passage plan with rear lateral hall and lower end stacks and with later rear
outshuts. Restored chimney stack at higher left hand gable end. 2 storeys. Long
5-window range. Sashes glazing bars. C18 or early C19. Hall window ground floor
centre with wooden mullions and 6 narrow lights with leaded panes in cambered arch
opening. Through-passage doorway to right with hipped roof porch. Inserted late
C18-early C19 left hand flush panel door with wooden lattice porch. Probable
smoking chamber at rear of lower end beside lateral stack, gabled and with tall
narrow opening and carbelled roof with flue. Interior: roung-arched granite doorway
in through-passage, rebeted to the door, to lower service room, now leading to loft
stairs which has splat balusters. Hall has roughly-hewn ceiling beams and blocked
fireplace on rear wall. C18 stair hall inserted into inner room with staircase and
cupboard to side with Chinese Chippendale openwork panel. C18 roof structure with
proncipals crossed and halved at apex and with side-pegged collars. Remains of one
early truss survives over lower end with principals morticed for collar and for
threaded purlins and with curved feet exposed in room below. Circa C18 dairy wing
at lower end projecting at front right with loft over, stone rubble with asbestos
slate hipped roof, external stairs to loft door. Lean-to on end wall with pigeon
holes.

Listing NGR: SX6790555792

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26611017

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