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TL 4521 LITTLE HADHAM BURY GREEN (east side)

12/9 Homecroft

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GV II House. C16 or earlier. An unusually complete, long single storey hall house facing N (shown on Clintons Estate Map of 1588 (HRO)): floor inserted and lower (E) bay of hall rebuilt with chimneys and service end in L-shape in early C17: floor inserted over this kitchen in early C18 but now still no communication with chambers over hall and parlour. Timberframed with steep old red tile roofs, gabled at W but half-hipped to E and N end of wing. Modern hipped dormer n S. N side plastered and lined out in panels. Weatherboarding elsewhere. 3-light wooden casements, modern. Small hipped tiled canopy in angle over front door into lobby by chimney. Twin doors to dairy (E), pantry (W) in wing on N side of kitchen. Stair in NE corner to room over, adapted to also serve room over kitchen. Walls of W part close studded with tension bracing. Clasped purlin roof with principals not diminished, in C16 part and later part. Curved brace from original jowled post to chamfered tie beam of truss between parlour and hall. Truss close studded and filled with wattle- and-daub. Similar infilled truss on N side of chimney formerly over middle of hall with nortice for brace to tie beam on S side. Chamfered and hollow stopped joists on chamfered axial beam in floor inserted below eaves in both hall and parlour. Former stair in NW corner of parlour. New C18 winding stair in NE corner of parlour entered from hall. The parlour is unheated. Up to 1933 called The Vineyard. Part of group at N end of Conservation Area.

Listing NGR: TL4524221488