Priors Cottage

Priors Cottage is a house located on Albury Road in Little Hadham, dating from the late 17th century, with extensions from the 18th century and features from the 19th century. The building is narrow and two storeys high, constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, facing south with a gable end towards the road. It has a steep roof covered in old red tiles.

On the eastern end, there is a single-storey lean-to extension that was originally an outhouse but is now part of the living space. A modern timber-framed porch with a gabled roof and tiled covering has been added to the south, featuring a high brick base and a reused old iron casement. The original structure was a two-storey house consisting of two structural bays, with a clasped purlin roof designed to provide headroom in the loft, accessed by a small door in the eastern gable.

The external chimney on the western gable provided heat to one room and was later enclosed in a two-storey extension, likely added in the early 18th century, which included small fireplaces on each floor connected to the old chimney in the 19th century. The front of the house has three windows and a four-panel flush beaded door leading into the middle room, which is further from the fireplace. The windows are small-paned wooden casements.

The two older bays have a high plastered plinth, while the western part has a lower plinth. A flint and red brick retaining wall underpins the western gable and features two buff headers inscribed with '1840'. The timber frame is exposed on the rear wall between the protruding plastered panels, with timbers in the older two bays numbered successively. Inside, the ground floor has axial chamfered ceiling beams, and the staircase rises from the western parlour against the rear wall.