Description

TL 4422 LITTLE HADHAM STORTFORD ROAD
(south side)

8/11 Fiddlers Croft 250
metres along drive
22.2.67 beside Stonehouse Farm

- II*

House. Early C17 brick house. N part has internal plaster
decoration dateable to c.1603 (RCHM Typescript). Later S part
probably built by John Sabine c,1644. (Minet (1914)). House of
Nicholas Pamphillon, violin maker, c.1726 (HRO). Low plastered
and pantiled modern N wing c.1922. One and a half storeys, of
red brick in English bond with ovolo-moulded brick mullioned
windows. Steep old red tile gable roofs. S front wall later
faced in Flemish bond red brick with buttresses and projecting
central gabled room over front door. This has modern panelled
pargetting and a double frieze of violins above the door. Older
N part lies E-W, with one room on each floor on each side of a
large central chimney carried above the roof in 2 square shafts,
1 each side of the ridge. There is an external ledge at 1st
floor level and 2-light brick mullioned windows. There are ogee-
stopped and chamfered cross beams over the lower rooms. The
added S part is parallel and overlaps two-thirds of the N part
but has its floors considerably higher. Its central chimney has
3 octagonal shafts in line E-W, it has 3-light mullioned windows
generally, axial stopped and chamfered beams, and no external
ledge. An entrance and staircase occupy the NE angle in a wider
extension of the N part and there is a tile-hung link at roof
level. A round-arched opening gives onto the front door, a 3-
light window lights the stair and a 2-light E gable window the
landing. There are 3-centred arched fireplaces, chamfered and
plastered, in the W 1st floor rooms in each part. The upper W
room in the older N part has an almost complete scheme of
decorative plasterwork on the upper parts of the walls probably
commemorating the Union with Scotland c.1603. An elaborate
fleur-de-lis, with choughs pecking berries above, and smaller
fleur-de-lis, at cardinal points around. Palmette frieze on W
wall. Central rose motif and fat thistles on the chimney. A
lion rampant, with bezants top right and bottom left, in a border
over the door. Similar large fleur-de-lis and lion rampant
panels appear over staircases, and the lion panel on the S
chimney on the upper landing, probably copied c.1922. Probably
associated with the Capel family who had their seat at Hadham
Hall up to c.1668.

Listing NGR: TL4446322412

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17554222

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)