Bridge House Cottages
BRIDGE HOUSE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, STORTFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211344
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge House Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE HOUSE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, STORTFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211344
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge House Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE HOUSE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, STORTFORD ROAD
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:
- BRIDGE HOUSE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, 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 43992 22706
Details
TL 4322 LITTLE HADHAM STORTFORD ROAD (south side) Little Hadham-on-Ash
7/14 Bridge House Cottages Nos 1 and 2 22.2.67
GV II
2 houses adjacent. Late C17 pair of semi-detached small houses facing N. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Ground floor cased in brick. Steep half-hipped old red tile roof. Large corner fireplaces with ovens in rear outer corners with stacks running up end walls. 4 structural bays with jowled posts, stop-chamfered cross and axial beams support floors, and stairs rise on rear wall over door and next to fireplace. Large and small room on each floor in each house. Regular 3-window front with doors between lower windows. Plastered upper part has 'ISF' and '1726' below the outer windows in raised and painted plaster. Panelled pargetting with painted black borders. Coved plastered eaves. Upper windows are small flush box sashes with 6/6 small panes. Pargetting returns round end walls up to chimneys. Lower floor cased in Flemish bond red brick painted white with heavily moulded brick offset to plinth. Segmental arched doorways and recessed sash windows undivided. 2-light wooden casements in each gable lighting the attic. Gabled 2- light dormer at rear. Small cast iron pump fixed post at rear. Clasped purlin roof without collars but with curved queen struts. Rear wall plate has a face-halved and bladed scarf joint. Old plank doors. Part of picturesque group at crossroads.
Listing NGR: TL4399222706
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395829
- 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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