The Bury
THE BURY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220972
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Bury
- Statutory Address:
- THE BURY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220972
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Bury
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BURY
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:
- THE BURY
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:
- TL4503021089
Details
TL 4521 LITTLE HADHAM BURY GREEN
(south side)
12/18 The Bury
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GV II
House. Later C16 (Manor Court Rolls of Little Hadham moved from
Bury to church tower for safekeeping in 1585 (Minet (1914) 106)
possibly occasioned by rebuilding: house marked on Clintons
Estate map of 1588 in HRO). '1572' marked in modern plaster of E
gable of N cross wing. Long low timber frame, facing E with 2
cross wings. S wing rebuilt with 2 storeys, attic and cellar and
stair tower formerly in angle, in early C17. Interior remodelled
early C19. 2 storeys flat roofed corridor and entrance addition
on E side, single storey dining room added at rear of N wing
linking to former granary, and house cased in red brick on Ground
floor with plaster pargetting on upper floor, in this century.
Old red tile gabled roofs, half-hipped on granary. Central
chimney in middle of house and inserted floor with chamfered and
stopped beams of early C17, but cambered tie beam of open truss
of hall survives in bedroom to N of chimney, carried on heavy
jowled posts. Bressummer on N side of S wing, exposed
internally, shows this wing was close studded. This wing has an
early C19 central stair and contemporary fire surrounds to
external gable chimneys. Early C18 2 panel doors to attics lit
by 2 casement windows in the 2 gables on the S. Cellar under E
half of this wing. Small-paned wooden casements used generally.
Late C17 or early C18 timber frame plastered granary now forms a
high room with loft over carried on 2 deeply chamfered
crossbeams. 2 bay clasped purlin roof structure over with tie
beam cut and set higher. Modern dining room on its E has
elaborate carved wooden fire surround, dado and C17 small
panelled door with cockspur hinges all said to have come from
Albury Hall, now demolished. Late C18/early C19 6-panel moulded
doors in all parts of the house. Interesting carved oak fluted
fire surround on S side of central chimney. Administrative
centre of the Bishop of Ely's manor of Little Hadham, which
passed to the Cecil family in 1601-2 (VCH (1914) 53-4).
Listing NGR: TL4503021089
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394658
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1914), 53-4
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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