Hill Cottage
HILL COTTAGE, MILLFIELD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290301
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HILL COTTAGE, MILLFIELD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290301
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILL COTTAGE, MILLFIELD LANE
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:
- HILL COTTAGE, MILLFIELD LANE
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:
- TL4506021635
Details
TL 4521 LITTLE HADHAM MILLFIELD LANE
(east side)
Bury Green
12/8 Hill Cottage
-
GV II
House. C16. Timberframed. Steep half-hipped thatched roofs.
Tall red brick chimney rising at junction of wings, with later
additional flue on W for W wing. Walls plastered with
weatherboarded apron and side walls of W wing. L-plan facing S.
A most interesting and complete C16 range, possibly associated
with a hall to W replaced by later W wing. Marked as 'Clarkes'
on Clintons Estate map of 1588 (HRO). Single storey W wing
rebuilt in late C17, possibly shortened to 1 bay later. Low
pantiled lean-to in angle in 1969. Main accommodation in E part,
of 2 storeys with N room and S room on each floor. Lobby and
cross stair taken out of rear (N) rooms. S rooms heated by
external lateral chimney on W, with a lobby entrance on its S
flank taken out of W wing, and fireplace on each floor.
Dripboards on brackets across gables at eaves level. Small 2-
light wooden casements renewed. Plank door painted. Exposed
timbers inside, with close-studding, tension braces, heavy jowled
posts, roughly finished 4 bay clasped purlin roof probably
underceiled up to collars originally. Central cross partition
plastered up to apex of roof. Axial floor beams chamfered and
stopped. Square joists. Lower W wing is timberframed and
plastered up roof slope and under collars. Formerly had separate
S entrance. Corner-ties across NE and SE corners on wall plate.
Interior of E part virtually unchanged with brick floors in
place.
Listing NGR: TL4506021635
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395342
- 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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