Bridge House Cottages

TL 4322 LITTLE HADHAM STORTFORD ROAD (south side) Little Hadham-on-Ash

7/14 Bridge House Cottages Nos 1 and 2 22.2.67

GV II

2 houses adjacent. Late C17 pair of semi-detached small houses facing N. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Ground floor cased in brick. Steep half-hipped old red tile roof. Large corner fireplaces with ovens in rear outer corners with stacks running up end walls. 4 structural bays with jowled posts, stop-chamfered cross and axial beams support floors, and stairs rise on rear wall over door and next to fireplace. Large and small room on each floor in each house. Regular 3-window front with doors between lower windows. Plastered upper part has 'ISF' and '1726' below the outer windows in raised and painted plaster. Panelled pargetting with painted black borders. Coved plastered eaves. Upper windows are small flush box sashes with 6/6 small panes. Pargetting returns round end walls up to chimneys. Lower floor cased in Flemish bond red brick painted white with heavily moulded brick offset to plinth. Segmental arched doorways and recessed sash windows undivided. 2-light wooden casements in each gable lighting the attic. Gabled 2- light dormer at rear. Small cast iron pump fixed post at rear. Clasped purlin roof without collars but with curved queen struts. Rear wall plate has a face-halved and bladed scarf joint. Old plank doors. Part of picturesque group at crossroads.

Listing NGR: TL4399222706