Palmers Cottage South Cottage

TL 5416/5516 HATFIELD BROAD OAK CAGE END (east side)

6/48 Palmers Cottage/South Cottage 20/02/67 (Both were formerly listed as Palmers) GV II

Pair of houses, former single house. C16 or earlier. Timber framed and plastered with pegtile roofs. Of complex plan form with 2 storey crosswing at west with hipped roof slope and lean-to against its western flank with gabled dormer. 2 storey 'hall' block to east with hipped gablet roof with ridge line stack and larger 2 storey block at rear with white weatherboarded C20 flat roofed extension. Small stack through ridge line of crosswing. Front has C19 casements with cross pattern glazing bars and fragments of old pargetting. central late C18 doorcase, with pilasters and frieze of 3 triglyphs and panels and flat hood, (as originally removed from Old Barrington Hall.) Both crosswing and range to east were formerly jettied and one bracket survives within each part. The hall block has arch braces to tie beams with traces of late C16 wall paintings. Large repaired inglenook fireplace and integral C16 floors throughout. Rear range was C17/C18 single storey block later raised.

Listing NGR: TL5458916463