Homecroft
HOMECROFT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221051
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Homecroft
- Statutory Address:
- HOMECROFT
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221051
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Homecroft
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOMECROFT
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:
- HOMECROFT
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 45242 21488
Details
TL 4521 LITTLE HADHAM BURY GREEN (east side)
12/9 Homecroft
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GV II House. C16 or earlier. An unusually complete, long single storey hall house facing N (shown on Clintons Estate Map of 1588 (HRO)): floor inserted and lower (E) bay of hall rebuilt with chimneys and service end in L-shape in early C17: floor inserted over this kitchen in early C18 but now still no communication with chambers over hall and parlour. Timberframed with steep old red tile roofs, gabled at W but half-hipped to E and N end of wing. Modern hipped dormer n S. N side plastered and lined out in panels. Weatherboarding elsewhere. 3-light wooden casements, modern. Small hipped tiled canopy in angle over front door into lobby by chimney. Twin doors to dairy (E), pantry (W) in wing on N side of kitchen. Stair in NE corner to room over, adapted to also serve room over kitchen. Walls of W part close studded with tension bracing. Clasped purlin roof with principals not diminished, in C16 part and later part. Curved brace from original jowled post to chamfered tie beam of truss between parlour and hall. Truss close studded and filled with wattle- and-daub. Similar infilled truss on N side of chimney formerly over middle of hall with nortice for brace to tie beam on S side. Chamfered and hollow stopped joists on chamfered axial beam in floor inserted below eaves in both hall and parlour. Former stair in NW corner of parlour. New C18 winding stair in NE corner of parlour entered from hall. The parlour is unheated. Up to 1933 called The Vineyard. Part of group at N end of Conservation Area.
Listing NGR: TL4524221488
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394643
- 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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