Ongars

Ongars is a house located on Dunmow Road in Hatfield Heath, dating from the late 16th century and 17th century. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior, with 20th-century pargetting. The roof is gabled and covered with peg tiles, and there are two lean-to extensions at the rear, also with peg tiles. The house has two storeys, a small off-centre ridge line stack, and a large 17th-century gable end stack with offsets. The front of the house displays a mix of 19th-century and 20th-century casement windows with small panes or central horizontal glazing bars, along with one double-hung sash window with small panes on the first floor. There are two flat hooded entrance doors. Inside, there is a late 16th-century former open hall featuring halved and bladed scarf joints and jowled posts, which was raised and altered in the 17th century, along with an inserted floor and an inglenook stack.