Herkstead Green Cottage (EHER 29542)

16th and 17th century timber-framed house.

House is of the 16th and 17th centuries, and altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed, plastered, and roofed with handmade red clay tiles. There is a 17th to 18th century external chimney stack on the west side. There is a 17th century four-bay range to the east, with two axial chimney stacks, one of the 17th century, and the other of the 19th. The interior has jowled posts, a steeply cambered tiebeam with arched braces in the crosswing, and an original clasped purlin roof with high collars and curved windbraces. The east range has lodged axial beams, plain-chamfered, a cambered tiebeam re-used from a medieval building, and some re-used smoke-blackened rafters. It is clear that this wing replaces an open hall on the same site, probably the source of the re-used timber. There are constructional similarities with Herkstead Green Farmhouse, 100 metres to the west. <1> See: <2>