House Adjoining May Cottage on West
HOUSE ADJOINING MAY COTTAGE ON WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210192
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- House Adjoining May Cottage on West
- Statutory Address:
- HOUSE ADJOINING MAY COTTAGE ON WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210192
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- House Adjoining May Cottage on West
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOUSE ADJOINING MAY COTTAGE ON WEST
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HOUSE ADJOINING MAY COTTAGE ON WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Hadham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 45847 21820
Details
TL 4521 LITTLE HADHAM CRADLE END (east side)
12/6 House adjoining May Cottage on W - GV II
House. C16, front wall heightened and house converted to 2 cottages in C19. Now one house. Long, narrow, timber frame of 4 structural bays on rendered and painted sill wall, facing S. Plastered rear wall of single storey, below very steep pitched gabled roof now slated. 2 storeys, 4 window white weatherboarded front with flatter pitched slated roof slope. Weatherboarded W gable and W lean-to garage with pantiled roof and clay lump rear wall. Paired tension braces exposed internally in E end wall. Original close studded partition divided off E bay. W bay, probably originally a smoke bay, retains a heavy lintel/tie beam spanning the width of the house which is deeply chamfered on the W side for much of its length between soffit mortices for jamb uprights. This probably carried a timberframed chimney. Stop chamfered axial beams carry a floor inserted in the 3 E bays probably in the C17. A red brick central chimneystack with back- to-back fireplaces and a winding stair on the N side was subsequently built in the middle of the house and the old smoke bay floored over. Steep stair in the SE corner of the house until recently. The subdivision of the house, the 2-light small paned wood casement windows, the raising of the front wall and the rebuilding of the chimney cap in yellow stock bricks, date from the Cl9. Half-glazed front doors into each half of the house and dripboards over the Ground floor windows.
Listing NGR: TL4584721820
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394867
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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