Chalk Cottage On East Side Of Jmi School

TL 4422 LITTLE HADHAM STORTFORD ROAD (south side) Little Hadham-on-Ash

8/12 Chalk Cottage (Formerly Chalk Pit Cottage) on E side of - JMI School

GV II

House. Late C17 or early C18, extended at both ends in C18/C19. Thatched rear extension 1979. Long, low, single storey, timberframed plastered, facing N, with half-hipped thatched roof. Slightly higher middle part is oldest. Eyebrow dormer over front door, with 3-light late C17 mullioned leaded window and iron casement, shows this part was of one and a half storeys. It had an external gable chimney on W end, now adapted to serve an C18, single storey W extension with 2 windows in each side. Similar, lower E extension probably C19. Low 3-light and 4-light C19 casements in rear wall. Plank front door. Deeds in HRO describe it as erected on a newly-enclosed holding beside road probably c.1700 and long owned by Abraham Wood, bricklayer and limeburner (d 1813) who had his limekiln on land at rear. Opposite the house is an old chalk pit. An historic documented house illustrating the beginning of permanent house-building at that level of society. Part of group with school and buildings at The Ash.

Listing NGR: TL4430222625