Thatched Cottage

TL 4521 LITTLE HADHAM BURY GREEN (east side)

12/13 Thatched Cottage

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GV II

House. C16 or earlier, thatched, facing W. On Clintons Estate map of 1588 (HRO). Originally an open hall and one and a half storey N end roofed in line: central chimney and floor inserted and house converted to lobby entry plan, in early C17, with new stair formerly in lobby and 4-light diamond mullioned slope roofed dormer to front (head mortices remain): renovated and 2 storeys rear wing added 1954 and extended to rear (E) 1969, one and a half storeys, timberframed, and plastered with black painted plinth. Steep pitched thatched roof gabled to N but hipped at S over end lean-to with lower eaves, 3-light wood casements. External gable chimney in C18 red brick on N. 2 3- light casement dormers on front eaves. Close studded timber frame exposed inside. Swept jowled posts, tension brace in partition, chamfered axial beam and joints in N part with old stair formerly in NE corner. Chamfered and stopped axial beam supporting square joists of floor inserted over hall. Clasped purlin roof with rafters possibly soot blackened. Quality of carpentry suggests this was a 3-unit C16 house, the service end being demolished when the S lean-to was substituted in the early C18. Old dormer over the hall being of unusual interest.

Listing NGR: TL4514121146