Description

TL 4322 LITTLE HADHAM STORTFORD ROAD
(south side)
Little Hadham-on-Ash

7/14 Bridge House Cottages
Nos 1 and 2
22.2.67

GV II

2 houses adjacent. Late C17 pair of semi-detached small houses
facing N. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed and plastered.
Ground floor cased in brick. Steep half-hipped old red tile
roof. Large corner fireplaces with ovens in rear outer corners
with stacks running up end walls. 4 structural bays with jowled
posts, stop-chamfered cross and axial beams support floors, and
stairs rise on rear wall over door and next to fireplace. Large
and small room on each floor in each house. Regular 3-window
front with doors between lower windows. Plastered upper part has
'ISF' and '1726' below the outer windows in raised and painted
plaster. Panelled pargetting with painted black borders. Coved
plastered eaves. Upper windows are small flush box sashes with
6/6 small panes. Pargetting returns round end walls up to
chimneys. Lower floor cased in Flemish bond red brick painted
white with heavily moulded brick offset to plinth. Segmental
arched doorways and recessed sash windows undivided. 2-light
wooden casements in each gable lighting the attic. Gabled 2-
light dormer at rear. Small cast iron pump fixed post at rear.
Clasped purlin roof without collars but with curved queen struts.
Rear wall plate has a face-halved and bladed scarf joint. Old
plank doors. Part of picturesque group at crossroads.

Listing NGR: TL4399222706

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26506358

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)