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Hadens End (EHER 37357)

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Summary

Late 16th century timber-framed house.

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Location

Grid reference TL 5795 1869 (point)
Civil Parish GREAT CANFIELD, UTTLESFORD, ESSEX

Type and Period

Description

House of the late 16th century, and extended in the 17th and 20th century. It is timber-framed, plastered, with a thatched roof. The house has three bays with axial chimney stack in middle bay, with a 17th century extension to the south-east and an end chimney stack, and 20th century flat-roofed single-storey extension beyond. On the ground floor there are three 20th century casement windows, two 17th century windows of two fixed lights, and one wrought-iron casement, with a plain door with shallow hood. There are two gabled dormers, one with a 20th century casement window, and one with a 17th century window of two fixed and wrought iron casement. The roof is half-hipped at the north-west end only. There are jowled storey posts, cambered tiebeams, curved tension bracing trenched inside studs, and one unglazed window with diamond mullions in the south-east end wall of original house, now in an open partition. There are five 17th century windows present, with wrought iron casements and leaded glass, some original. It has some original floorboards. <1> See: <2>

Sources

  • <1> Webpage: Historic England. 2011. National Heritage List for England (NHLE).
  • <2> Photograph: Essex County Council. 1970-1993. ECC Historic Buildings Photo Print Archive. 3 frames, 1/1983.

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