Description

TL 4222 LITTLE HADHAM ALBURY ROAD
(east side)
Little Hadham-on-Ash

8/1 Priors Cottage
(Formerly Priory
- Cottage)

GV II

House. Late C17, extended C18, C19 features and date '1840'
twice on W retaining wall. Narrow, 2 storeys, timberframed,
plastered, facing S with gable end to road. Steep, old red tile,
gabled roof. Tiled lean-to timberframed plastered single storey
extension on E end, formerly an outhouse but now part of
accommodation. Modern timberframed gabled, tiled S porch with
high brick plinth and reused old iron casement. Originally a 2
storey house of 2 structural bays with clasped purlin roof and
purlins set high to allow headroom in the loft and access by
small door in E gable. The external W gable chimney, giving one
heated room, was enclosed in a 2 storey W extension probably in
the early C18 which had small fireplaces contrived on each floor
into the old chimney in the C19. 3-window front with 4-panel
flush beaded door into end of middle room further from fireplace.
Small-paned wooden 2-light casement windows. High plastered
plinth to 2 older bays but lower plinth to W part. Flint and red
brick retaining wall now underpins W gable and has 2 buff headers
carved '1840'. Timber frame exposed on rear wall between
protruding plastered panels. Timbers numbered successively in
older 2 bays. Interior has axial chamfered ceiling beams to
Ground floor and stair now rises from W parlour against rear
wall.

Listing NGR: TL4406922869

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26515220

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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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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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)