Crow Gate

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TL 61 NE 1/799

GREAT WALTHAM HARTFORD END Crow Gate

(Formerly listed as Crowgate Cottage)

II Farmhouse, now house. Late C16. Render over timber frame; gabled thatch roof; brick end stacks. 3 bay plan with through-passage to right of central open hall and parlour to left; service bay to right demolished. One storey and attic; 2-window range. Flat rendered arches over central C19 plank door and 2-light casements, which are set in swept dormers on first floor. C20 one storey bay added to right, of rendered brick with gabled old tile roof.

Interior: exposed oak timber framing; curved bracing to jowled storey posts; soffit tenons with diminished haunches to floor joists; face-halved and bladed joint to wall plate; clasped purlin roof with windbraces and, from left, a closed truss, a collar truss with queen posts removed, and truss to right not visible. Chamfered beam, diamond-mullioned 4-light oak window and C19 plank door to winder stairs in former parlour to left; former open hall to right has late C17 inserted floor with softwood beam; remains of spere truss to passage (demolished) on right remain. A late example of an in-line 3 bay open-hall house.

Listing NGR: TL6885516258