Acremans

TL 4421 LITTLE HADHAM ACREMAN STREET (Formerly Acremore Street) (south side) Bury Green

10/1 Acremans (Formerly listed as 22.2.67 Acremore Street Farmhouse)

GV II

House, probably C16 hall house though all dateable detail is C17 (RCHM Typescript). Timberframed plastered with old red tiled roof gabled to E, half-hipped to W. 3-unit lobby entry house of 2 storeys facing N with stair tower on S next chimney. C19 lean- to extension along rear wall roofed uniformly with stair tower. Small C19 gabled porch. Pleasant single storey SW rear extension with low pitched copper roof by Bruce Martin 1966. N front has much of lower floor rebuilt in red brick painted, and a small 2 storey C19 canted bay to hall and chamber over. Striking tall central chimney with 3 conjoined diagonal shafts. Parlour on left of door has a chamfered and stopped cross beam and a wide C17 3-centred fireplace, chamfered and plastered. In hall a chamfered and stopped axial beam and an early C18 corner cupboard with hemicycle top, shaped shelves and raised and fielded lower doors. Unheated W room has exposed joists and moulded axial beam. Floor well above ground level. Forms a group with its farm buildings to NW (RCHM (1911) 146 No 7: RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL4439521085