The Old Farmhouse

TL 4522 LITTLE HADHAM GREEN STREET (south side)

11/14 The Old Farmhouse (Formerly listed as 22.2.67 Green Street Farmhouse)

GV II

House. C16, plastering on front dated 1666. Staircase and front door inserted in C19. Tall, 2 storeys, timberframed and plastered farmhouse facing E. Weatherboarded apron to N and E sides. Steep old red tiled roof hipped with gablets. Small C19 casement windows of 1-3-lights, horizontally divided. 4-panel half-glazed, C19 front door into upper end of hall. Central red brick chimney one-third from N end backing onto cross passage. 3-unit plan with 2 doors into service rooms at W axially divided. C19 stair taken out of upper end of hall. 2 painted panels on front lozenge shaped with expanded points 'IM' and 'SEA 1666'. Patched pargetting on N wall. High cemented plinth. 3-light late C17 casement window with leaded glazing and iron opening light to chamber over parlour on SW. Door on W leads into cross passage with roomy recess on right, probably the site of a stair. Deeply moulded C16 beam over fireplace with hollows and rolls. Chamfered and stopped beams intersect over hall. Heavy jowls to posts at 2 levels. Clasped purlin roof. Fine 4-centred plastered brick fireplace to chamber over hall with sunk spandrels.

Listing NGR: TL4542722044