We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
Latitude: 51.8754 / 51°52'31"N
Longitude: 0.0844 / 0°5'3"E
OS Eastings: 543584
OS Northings: 221699
OS Grid: TL435216
Mapcode National: GBR LC9.B5G
Mapcode Global: VHHLT.D4Z5
Plus Code: 9F32V3GM+5Q
Entry Name: May Cottage and Gouldburn
Listing Date: 30 April 1985
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1210437
English Heritage Legacy ID: 394875
ID on this website: 101210437
Location: Little Hadham, East Hertfordshire, SG11
County: Hertfordshire
District: East Hertfordshire
Civil Parish: Little Hadham
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: Little Hadham
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Cottage
TL 4321 LITTLE HADHAM THE FORD
(east side)
Hadham Ford
9/16 May Cottage and
Gouldburn
-
GV II*
House, now 2 houses. C15 or earlier, N part (May Cottage) C16.
2 storeys, timberframed, plastered, facing W, now 2 properties.
Steep old red tile gabled roof. Large central chimney. External
S gable chimney. Small C19 stair projection at rear of
Gouldburn. Former 3-unit lobby entry plan. Middle part of roof
heavily smoke blackened. Narrow bay next to N gable possibly a
former smoke bay to parlour. Panelled pargetting on 3-window
front, central door with flat hood and shaped brackets. Door to
May Cottage next to N corner. Plinth of flint with brick on top.
S part (Gouldburn) has a former open hall. Arch braces, hollow
chamfered, to central cambered tie beam. Close studding and
tension bracing in front wall. Single framed collar rafter roof
withlapped joints. Inserted floor on stopped and chamfered axial
beam. Heavy sooting of timbers. Present central chimney is of
C18. N part (May Cottage) has a lower wall plate. Tension
bracing and shutter-groove for former unglazed window on 1st
floor front. Clasped purlin roof with curved wind braces and
queen strut trusses. Floor carried on cross beam and axial
joists. Narrow bay on N end probably a former smoke bay. 2
panel early C18 doors with HL hinges. A most interesting C15
timberframed open hall house with sooted roof of archaic
construction and with a C16 N parlour end, in line, with separate
smoke bay on N.
Listing NGR: TL4358421699
External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.
Other nearby listed buildings
