The Old Cottage at Hadham Hall 70 Metres East North East of Hall
THE OLD COTTAGE AT HADHAM HALL 70 METRES EAST NORTH EAST OF HALL, STORTFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211102
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Cottage at Hadham Hall 70 Metres East North East of Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD COTTAGE AT HADHAM HALL 70 METRES EAST NORTH EAST OF HALL, STORTFORD ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-09-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/05225/30
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211102
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Cottage at Hadham Hall 70 Metres East North East of Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD COTTAGE AT HADHAM HALL 70 METRES EAST NORTH EAST OF HALL, STORTFORD ROAD
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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:
- THE OLD COTTAGE AT HADHAM HALL 70 METRES EAST NORTH EAST OF HALL, STORTFORD ROAD
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 45317 22799
Details
TL 4522 LITTLE HADHAM STORTFORD ROAD (north side)
11/4 The Old Cottage at Hadham Hall 70 metres ENE of hall
GV II House, now a museum. Early C16 or earlier. High quality, small, timberframed 2 storeys domestic structure with gabled thatched roof. Possibly once part of a larger building. Surviving fine upper room spanned by crown post roof, and addition in C17 of brick W front with 4-light ovolo mullioned brick window to upper floor, and large E chimney with 2 octagonal shafts and 3-centre brick arched fireplaces on each floor, suggests its continued use as guest lodgings. It is narrow and its axis is N-S, which makes it unlikely that the lower thatched timberframed and plastered addition on the S replaced an earlier open hall in the later C17. It was probably added c.1688 when the Hall was reduced in size and became a farm. The oven beside the Ground floor fireplace was probably added then, and the ceiling and partitions on the upper floor. Pegholes in the wall plate show that the older building was close-studded. Two and a half bays original roof structure with short bay for stair. 2 bay miniscule crown post roof with evidence for curved braces to central truss collar, supporting collar purlin. Square crown post each end with solid knee-brace to collar purlin. Plank doors externally. Cast iron diamond lattice to window on W beside door. Fragments of C17 moulded panelling in stair partition on 1st floor. Workmanship of very high quality. Probably the earliest domestic building surviving at Hadham Hall. Part of the group of historic structures at this site. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL4531722799
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395676
- 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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