Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26515475

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (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)