Crowgate Cottage

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

In the entry for: GREAT WALTHAM HARTFORD END TL 61 NE

1/799 Crowgate Cottage

II The description shall be amended to read:

Farmhouse, now house. Late C16. Render over timber frame; gabled thatch roof; brick end stacks. 3 bay plan with through-passage to right of central open hall and parlour to left; service bay to right demolished. One storey and attic; 2-window range. Flat rendered arches over central C19 plank door and 2-light casements, which are set in swept dormers on first floor. C20 one- storey bay added to right, of rendered brick with gabled old tile roof.

Interior: exposed oak timber framing; curved bracing to jowled storey posts; soffit tenons with diminished haunches to floor joists; face-halved and bladed joint to wall plate; clasped purlin roof with windbraces and, from left, a closed truss, a collar truss with queen posts removed, and truss to right not visible.

Chamfered beam, diamond-mullioned 4-light oak window and C19 plank door to winder stairs in former parlour to left; former open hall to right has late C17 inserted floor with softwood beam; remains of spere truss to passage (demolished) on right remain. A late example of an in-line 3 bay open-ha11 house. '

------------------------------------ The following building shall be added: HARTFORD END TL 61 NE

1/799 Crowgate Cottage II Farmhouse, now house. Late C16. Render over timber frame; gabled thatch roof; brick end stacks. 3-unit plan with through-passage to right of central open hall and parlour to left; service bay to right demolished. One storey and attic; 2-window range. Flat rendered arches over central C19 plank door and 2-light casements, which are set in swept dormers on first floor. C20 one-storey bay added to right, of rendered brick with gabled old tile roof. Interior: exposed oak timber framing; curved bracing to jowled storey posts; soffit tenons with diminished haunches to floor joists; face-halved and bladed joint to wall plate; clasped purlin roof with windbraces and, from left, a closed truss, a collar truss with queen posts removed, and truss to right not visible. Chamfered beam, diamond-mullioned 4-light oak window and C19 plank door to winder stairs in former parlour to left; former open hall to right has late C17 inserted floor with softwood beam; remains of spere truss to passage (demolished) on right remain. A late example of a transitional stage 3-unit open-hall house.

Listing NGR: TL6885516258

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/2111 IOE Records taken by Peter J Wade; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Peter J Wade. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project