Thatched Cottage
THATCHED COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221110
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Thatched Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THATCHED COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221110
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Thatched Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THATCHED COTTAGE
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:
- THATCHED COTTAGE
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:
- TL4514121146
Details
TL 4521 LITTLE HADHAM BURY GREEN
(east side)
12/13 Thatched Cottage
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GV II
House. C16 or earlier, thatched, facing W. On Clintons Estate
map of 1588 (HRO). Originally an open hall and one and a half
storey N end roofed in line: central chimney and floor inserted
and house converted to lobby entry plan, in early C17, with new
stair formerly in lobby and 4-light diamond mullioned slope
roofed dormer to front (head mortices remain): renovated and 2
storeys rear wing added 1954 and extended to rear (E) 1969, one
and a half storeys, timberframed, and plastered with black
painted plinth. Steep pitched thatched roof gabled to N but
hipped at S over end lean-to with lower eaves, 3-light wood
casements. External gable chimney in C18 red brick on N. 2 3-
light casement dormers on front eaves. Close studded timber
frame exposed inside. Swept jowled posts, tension brace in
partition, chamfered axial beam and joints in N part with old
stair formerly in NE corner. Chamfered and stopped axial beam
supporting square joists of floor inserted over hall. Clasped
purlin roof with rafters possibly soot blackened. Quality of
carpentry suggests this was a 3-unit C16 house, the service end
being demolished when the S lean-to was substituted in the early
C18. Old dormer over the hall being of unusual interest.
Listing NGR: TL4514121146
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394648
- 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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