Little Hatch

Little Hatch is a house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations and additions made in the mid-19th century. It features a timber-framed structure with painted brick and rendered infill, along with some brick replacement walling and a plain tiled roof. The house consists of two framed bays aligned east to west and has an external chimney with tiled offsets on the south side elevation. It is a single storey with an attic that includes dormers.

The framing includes three panels from the sill to the wall-plate, long straight braces across some lower corners, and collar and tie-beam trusses with three struts to the collar and a V-strut in the apex. On the west front elevation, the gable end has a plank weathering at the first floor, with a three-light casement on the ground floor and an attic light. The main entrance is located in a 19th-century wing on the north side elevation, featuring a three-light ground floor casement with a cambered head, a gabled dormer with a two-light casement, and a ledged and battened entrance door with a cambered head. There is a brick stack at the north end of the ridge. Inside, the north wall-frame is noted to be mainly intact.