Moor Cottage

GREAT GADDESDEN POTTEN END HILL TL 0310 (South side) Water End 10/121 Moor Cottage 26.1.67 (Formerly listed as Moor Cottage, Water End)

GV II*

House. Late C15 or early C16 cruck framed open hall house, hipped W rear wing, floor in hall, front gable and chimney later C17, windows altered and brick infill early C18, small lean-to extensions at rear 1960s. Timber frame on red brick sill, red brick infill, steep old red tile roofs. A 1 1/2-storeys T-plan house facing E. 3-windows E front has flush casement windows, panelled door to left of RH window marking the position of the former cross-passage. Large gable to left of door has jettied top over 4-light leaded casement lighting the chamber over the hall which has similar 4-light window below. 2-light window to S end parlour with later external gable chimney. Large cruck truss exposed in N gable end (formerly half-hipped as shown in Buckler dwg of 1838 in HRO). 3-light casements to each floor. Interior of considerable interest for extent the original form and details can be reconstructed. 3 cruck-framed bays originally open to the roof except N bay which has cross-passage and service rooms axially divided and original floor of flat joists carried on axial beam. Stair probably on W wall. Closed truss between passage and hall open below cross-beam. Peg-holes for bench and bench-end at S (upper) end of hall, with evidence for large casement window originally on E side. 4 pairs of cruck blades, each terminating just above the collar beam (Type W in N Alcock (ed) Cruck Construction; an introduction and catalogue (1981)). Unusual use of side-chimney when hall floored in C17. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL0393510244