Description

TL 4521 LITTLE HADHAM CRADLE END
(east side)

12/6 House adjoining May
Cottage on W
-

GV II

House. C16, front wall heightened and house converted to 2
cottages in C19. Now one house. Long, narrow, timber frame of 4
structural bays on rendered and painted sill wall, facing S.
Plastered rear wall of single storey, below very steep pitched
gabled roof now slated. 2 storeys, 4 window white weatherboarded
front with flatter pitched slated roof slope. Weatherboarded W
gable and W lean-to garage with pantiled roof and clay lump rear
wall. Paired tension braces exposed internally in E end wall.
Original close studded partition divided off E bay. W bay,
probably originally a smoke bay, retains a heavy lintel/tie beam
spanning the width of the house which is deeply chamfered on the
W side for much of its length between soffit mortices for jamb
uprights. This probably carried a timberframed chimney. Stop
chamfered axial beams carry a floor inserted in the 3 E bays
probably in the C17. A red brick central chimneystack with back-
to-back fireplaces and a winding stair on the N side was
subsequently built in the middle of the house and the old smoke
bay floored over. Steep stair in the SE corner of the house
until recently. The subdivision of the house, the 2-light small
paned wood casement windows, the raising of the front wall and
the rebuilding of the chimney cap in yellow stock bricks, date
from the Cl9. Half-glazed front doors into each half of the
house and dripboards over the Ground floor windows.

Listing NGR: TL4584721820

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505237

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)