Providence House

TL 4422 LITTLE HADHAM ALBURY ROAD (east side) Little Hadham-on-Ash

8/5 Providence House

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GV II

House. Late C17, altered in early C19 and narrow lean-to added, small single storey E extension 1979. Long, 2 storeys and attic, 4 windows white plastered house facing S with gable end to street. Timber frame plastered under long red tiled gabled roof. External W gable chimney and adjacent Ground floor cased in painted brick. Formerly 3-unit probably central chimney, lobby entry plan, with parlour at W and service room at E end. Converted in early C19 by removal of chimneystack, throwing service room into middle room and making spacious entrance hall with new staircase on site of chimney by partitioning off W end of middle room. Pair of doors lead off rear of this hall to new shallow lean-to service rooms. Small fireplace added at E end with chimney at SE corner. External gable chimney added to heat parlour. Clasped purlin roof with thin timbers and high-set chamfered purlins at E end to accommodate an attic room. Asymmetrical S front has Yorkshire sliding casements to 1st floor and 2 square bay windows with casement lights. Hipped tiled roofs with lefthand roof extended over 4-panel flush beaded door, with shaped brackets for an earlier hood. Stop-chamfered axial beam in parlour. Chamfered axial beam extends through rest of Ground floor. Wall plate has face halved bladed scarf joints. Said to have been used as a village school and to have been thatched up to present century.

Listing NGR: TL4404122802