Description

TL 42 SW LITTLE HADHAM BURY GREEN
(south side)

1/19 Clintons
(formerly listed as
19.10.51 Clinton Hall)

GV II*

House. Fine early C15 timber frame and plastered hall-house with
2 storeys E cross wing incorporating, on E end, a 2 storeys
square brick tower possibly the private apartments to an earlier
timber hall. Steep old red tile gabled roofs. Floor and E gable
chimney inserted in hall in C16. Cross wing re-roofed in line
with hall roof and chimneystack inserted on E side in later C17.
Lower (W) bay of hall and service rooms demolished and 2 storeys
L-shaped hipped roofed N wing added in later C18. Small single
storey, red brick and tile, hipped extension recently on N end.
Small gabled porch on W with plastered brickwork and slate roof.
Upper floor generally plastered and panelled, with red brick
below. Early C19 sash windows with 6/6 panes on W front. Modern
leaded oak windows in older parts. Sun Fire Mark No 543494 over
front door. The upper 2 bays of the former open hall are divided
by a heavy moulded tie beam with cusped traceried spandrel to
curved brace on S side. A 4-centred arch with carved spandrels
on the N side of the upper bay gave onto a former bay window
lighting the upper end of the hall. Now in roof space over, are
moulded butt purlins and hollow chamfered wind braces in afine
medieval roof. Opposite the bay window, the wall plate has an
edge-halved scarf with over-squinted bridled butts. The C16
inserted floor in hall has intersecting moulded beams and is said
to have moulded joists above plaster ceiling. Plaster decoration
matching that in wing dated 1665 at Lower Farm, Bury Green. The
2 storeys cross wing contemporary with the hall has a 1st floor
external doorway on S side with 4-centred wooden head and carved
spandrels. Square-headed door under. Jowled post at NW corner
indicates old roof ran across. Present late C17 roof
construction has butt purlins and morticed rafters. Early red
brick 2 storeys tower has thick walls, circular stair in NW
corner, a fireplace on each floor, with moulded wooden lintels
and relieving arches, in E half of N wall, both served by a large
external chimney. Upper chamber has 7-faceted plaster ceiling on
original roof structure now in roof space. Collar rafter single
roof with braces to collars and ashlar pieces, but no
longitudinal members. Moulded oak cornice remains on S side.
Exterior has axed brick plinth-offset, blocked window openings in
S wall and black-brick diaper decoration on E gable end, with a
large Latin cross with stepped base, in upper part,offset for
windows on right. Clintons is the manor house of the manor of
'Clintons held of the Bishop of Ely and held by Henry Clynton in
1396'. It was in the king's hand by 1407/8 when he granted it to
John Rassh for life. In 1439 and 1462, the king again granted it
(VCH (1914) 54-5). The fine hall and cross wing were presumably
built while the manor was in the gift of Henry VI: the brick
wing probably by Henry Clynton or his ecclesiastical superior.
Centre of a group of historical buildings at this manorial site
(RCHM (1911) 146: VCH (1914) 50, 54-5: Pevsner (1977) 241:
RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL4497420984

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17554234

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