Ballingdon Cottage

GREAT GADDESDEN CLEMENTS END ROAD TL 01 SW (West side) Ballingdon Bottom

3/73 Ballingdon Cottage 26.1.67

GV II

House. Late C15/early C16 open hall house, house heightened to 2 storeys and floors inserted in C17 when internal chimney built in hall and N bay added (or completely rebuilt), interior renovated c.1950s. Timber frame on low brick sill, red brick infill, chimneys, and casing to ground floor at rear, steep old red tile roof. A 2-storeys house facing W now of 4 structural bays with large internal chimney rising to rear of ridge, and later external gable chimneys serving ground floor fireplaces at each end. Flush wooden casement windows renewed, and battened door to small gabled porch near middle of front. The middle 2 bays were the former hall and this and the S service bay were open to the roof. The former cross-passage ran through the S end of the hall and was maintained when the fireplace was built backing onto it with a staircase behind. Mortices on axial beam in S bay show line of former partition. Clasped-purlin roof with curved wind-braces. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL0387113993