The Bury

TL 4521 LITTLE HADHAM BURY GREEN (south side)

12/18 The Bury

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GV II

House. Later C16 (Manor Court Rolls of Little Hadham moved from Bury to church tower for safekeeping in 1585 (Minet (1914) 106) possibly occasioned by rebuilding: house marked on Clintons Estate map of 1588 in HRO). '1572' marked in modern plaster of E gable of N cross wing. Long low timber frame, facing E with 2 cross wings. S wing rebuilt with 2 storeys, attic and cellar and stair tower formerly in angle, in early C17. Interior remodelled early C19. 2 storeys flat roofed corridor and entrance addition on E side, single storey dining room added at rear of N wing linking to former granary, and house cased in red brick on Ground floor with plaster pargetting on upper floor, in this century. Old red tile gabled roofs, half-hipped on granary. Central chimney in middle of house and inserted floor with chamfered and stopped beams of early C17, but cambered tie beam of open truss of hall survives in bedroom to N of chimney, carried on heavy jowled posts. Bressummer on N side of S wing, exposed internally, shows this wing was close studded. This wing has an early C19 central stair and contemporary fire surrounds to external gable chimneys. Early C18 2 panel doors to attics lit by 2 casement windows in the 2 gables on the S. Cellar under E half of this wing. Small-paned wooden casements used generally. Late C17 or early C18 timber frame plastered granary now forms a high room with loft over carried on 2 deeply chamfered crossbeams. 2 bay clasped purlin roof structure over with tie beam cut and set higher. Modern dining room on its E has elaborate carved wooden fire surround, dado and C17 small panelled door with cockspur hinges all said to have come from Albury Hall, now demolished. Late C18/early C19 6-panel moulded doors in all parts of the house. Interesting carved oak fluted fire surround on S side of central chimney. Administrative centre of the Bishop of Ely's manor of Little Hadham, which passed to the Cecil family in 1601-2 (VCH (1914) 53-4).

Listing NGR: TL4503021089