May Cottage and Gouldburn
MAY COTTAGE AND GOULDBURN, THE FORD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1210437
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- May Cottage and Gouldburn
- Statutory Address:
- MAY COTTAGE AND GOULDBURN, THE FORD
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- Date:
- 2001-09-08
- Reference:
- IOE01/05225/11
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1210437
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- May Cottage and Gouldburn
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAY COTTAGE AND GOULDBURN, THE FORD
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:
- MAY COTTAGE AND GOULDBURN, THE FORD
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 43584 21699
Details
TL 4321 LITTLE HADHAM THE FORD (east side) Hadham Ford
9/16 May Cottage and Gouldburn -
GV II* House, now 2 houses. C15 or earlier, N part (May Cottage) C16. 2 storeys, timberframed, plastered, facing W, now 2 properties. Steep old red tile gabled roof. Large central chimney. External S gable chimney. Small C19 stair projection at rear of Gouldburn. Former 3-unit lobby entry plan. Middle part of roof heavily smoke blackened. Narrow bay next to N gable possibly a former smoke bay to parlour. Panelled pargetting on 3-window front, central door with flat hood and shaped brackets. Door to May Cottage next to N corner. Plinth of flint with brick on top. S part (Gouldburn) has a former open hall. Arch braces, hollow chamfered, to central cambered tie beam. Close studding and tension bracing in front wall. Single framed collar rafter roof withlapped joints. Inserted floor on stopped and chamfered axial beam. Heavy sooting of timbers. Present central chimney is of C18. N part (May Cottage) has a lower wall plate. Tension bracing and shutter-groove for former unglazed window on 1st floor front. Clasped purlin roof with curved wind braces and queen strut trusses. Floor carried on cross beam and axial joists. Narrow bay on N end probably a former smoke bay. 2 panel early C18 doors with HL hinges. A most interesting C15 timberframed open hall house with sooted roof of archaic construction and with a C16 N parlour end, in line, with separate smoke bay on N.
Listing NGR: TL4358421699
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394875
- 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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