Ring Hill Cottage And Number 2

1. 5222 TL 5139 32/507

LITTLEBURY WALDEN ROAD (south side) Ring Hill Cottage and No 2

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2. Originally an early C16 timber-framed and plastered house of 2 bays set at right angles to the road. Two storeys, the upper storey is jettied on the road front. It seems that slightly after this house was built a hall block was built on the east side and a smoke bay with an open hearth was built against the east wall. This was discovered during renovations and was heavily smoke blackened. A floor was later inserted, probably in the C17 when a brick chimney stack was built. There is a lean-to addition on the east end. The windows are partly horizontal sliding sashes and partly casements. A doorway to the cross passage of the hall has cyma and hollow moulding and a broach footstop which suggests a date during the first quarter of the C16. Roofs tiled, with a gabled dormer and a central square chimney stack to the hall block. The roof of the 2 storeyed block has a crown post. (RCHM 15).

Listing NGR: TL5175239665