White Cottage, And Buttermilk Hall Farm

TL 32NW ASPENDEN BALDOCK ROAD (south side)

3/1 White Cottage Nos 1, and 2 at Buttermilk Hall Farm (formerly listed as Buttermilk Hall) 30.1.74

• II

House, now 2 houses. C16 N crosswing and open-hall range of a T- plan late medieval house, taller S part rebuilt with hall roof, in mid C19. N extension C20. Timber frame plastered, decorated with raised bands of painted slate, with old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys T-plan house facing E, with large C17 central chimney in upper (N) bay of hall, stair behind it to N (probably replacing an earlier one) and N-side external chimney to W bay of crosswing of C18 brickwork probably replacing an older stack. S external gable chimney serves brick-built C19 plastered S wing replacing old service end. Irregular E front with projecting gabled N wing, gable to hall and higher S wing with door into a cross-passage with stair. Conjoined diagonal shafts of central chimney serve hall and the chamber over. Exposed timber in long cross-wing with jowled posts and edge-halved scarf joint in wallplate with bridled butts. (RCHM Typescript: Buckler dwg. of c1830 in HRO).

Listing NGR: TL3423529428