Plum Tree Cottage

LITTLE GADDESDEN HUDNALL TL 01 SW (North side) 2/180 No. 8 (Plum Tree - Cottage) and No. 9

• II

House, now 2 houses. Mid C16, rear brick wings mid C19, S end of No. 8 and S porch 1970s. Timber frame exposed on 1st floor infilled with yellow brick. Red brick ground floor and rear parts. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys and cellar, 3 bays, 3 windows, E side jettied building now entered from S, extended to rear and one bay to S and with single-storey T-shaped block of outbuildings linked on W. Gabled S porch. C19 windows on E, each side of door, of 2 lights with chamfered and stopped mullions of unusually correct design for the time. Yellow stock brick infill between timbers above red brick of ground floor. Multangular central red brick chimney with moulded cap and base. Hall in N part (No. 9) reached by passage to rear of chimney with old rear door into rear wing. On S side of passage beam with mortices for partition and door, gap just beyond central axial beam itself with partition mortices. Clasped purlin-roof with curved wind braces and evidence for partitions corresponding to those on ground floor. Paired brackets under jetty mark entrance. Fine mid C16 floor beams moulded with rolls and hollows. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL0043213282