Description

TL 4522 LITTLE HADHAM GREEN STREET
(south side)

11/17 Green Street Cottage
(formerly listed as
22.2.67 Cottage block E of
Green Street Farm)

GV II

House. Later medieval, altered and E end rebuilt in early C17.
One and a half storeys and single storey timberframed, plastered,
facing N with half-hipped thatch roof dropping with 2 steps from
E to W. Formerly an open hall house, with 2 storeys cross wing
on W possibly jettied on N front. E part rebuilt as one and a
half storeyed parlour block in early C17. Chimney built in
cross passage, floor inserted in hall, and upper storey of W
cross wing destroyed in mid C17. Lozenge-shaped date panel on N
wall of E wing 'SIE 1660' is of similar design to that on The Old
Farmhouse to W and probably marks a change of ownership. Present
lobby entry 3-unit plan dates from C17 but upper part of central
chimney has been rebuilt and a former oven projecting on S of it
destroyed above ground. N front has small C19 casement windows
and a plank door. Cut back joist-ends with plates above and
below mark the former jettied (?) W cross wing. A step down in
the ridge marks the line of this wing. The interior has close-
studded walls and partitions exposed with much original wattle
and daub. Stop chamfered axial beam and squared joists in the
hall (middle room). Parlour at E end has bar stopped chamfered
cross beam and squared joists. A band of wall painting in
grisaile, a running scroll on white ground, runs along beam and
round all 4 walls of parlour just below joists, and 1 full panel
of circle-and-trellis interlace survives on E wall (dated to
1600-1625 by E Clive Rouse (RCHM Typescript)). 2 smoke-blackened
couples in roof-space on W of chimney show it had a collar-rafter
single-framed roof. Heavy jowled mid-posts of former 2-bay W
cross wing survive in roof. To c.1960 called Walnut Tree
Cottage. Said to be formerly the horse keeper's house for Green
Street Farm. Late medieval house showing clearly its adaptation
to a 3-unit lobby entry plan.

Listing NGR: TL4545022019

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505866

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)