A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



To the west of Church End, at the intersection of 

 Stane Street with the road to Much Hadham, is the 

 hamlet of Little Hadham, or, as Norden calls it, 

 Hadham on Ash,' by corruption Hadham Nash.'' 

 The school to the east of the hamlet was built about 

 1 86 1. At the south end of the hamlet is a smithy. 



Little Hadham Place stands in a park to the west 

 of the Much Hadham road and is now the residence 

 of Lady Braybrooke. The house was formerly a 

 farm called the Hull and was copyhold up to 1876.' 

 To the north of the park is a modem windmill. 



Hadham Ford, which lies further south on the road, 

 is the largest hamlet in the parish. There are here 

 several timber-framed and plastered cottages of early 

 1 7th-century date, some having panelled plasterwork 

 fronts of the early 1 8th century. The Independent 

 chapel was built in 1 Soo.° There was vnthin living 

 memory a smithy close by the ford. 



story with attics. The house is now divided into 

 three cottages. At the junction of the roofs is a 

 brick chimney stack with two octagonal detached 

 shafts with moulded bases ; one of the capitals is gone, 

 the other is modern. The m.iin block is gabled. 

 Some of the windows on the north front have their 

 original moulded oak mullions and transoms ; they 

 are not arched, the brickwork resting on the window 

 frames. 



At the top of Ford Hill the road forks, one branch, 

 called Hoecroft Lane, running north-east to Green 

 Street, and the other, called Acremore Street, south- 

 east to Bury Green. Acremore Street Farm is a 

 two-storied rectangular building of timber framing 

 covered with plaster and tiled roof. The central 

 brick chimney has square shafts set diagon.nlly. There 

 are some wide fireplaces in the house, partly inclosed 

 with modern cupboards. 



Clintons, Burv Gnus, Littll Hauham 



On the west side of the m.iin roid, at the foot of 

 Ford Hill, is an early lyth-centurj- cottage, timber- 

 framed and plastered and wiih tiled roof. In the 

 front gable is an oriel window on a curved plastered 

 bracket. A large chimney of thin bricks at the 

 south end has wide base and sloping offsets masked 

 by crow-stepped brickworK similar to many other 

 houses in the county. The shafts above are square ; 

 the front gable has an oak barge-board pierced with 

 a running pattern. 



On Ford Hill, which runs east from the village, is 

 an early i jth-century house,' built of thin bricks, 

 and with tiled roofs. The plan is T-shaped. The 

 main east block, forming the cross to the T, is of 

 two stories with attics ; the low west wing is of one 



There are several interesting houses at Bury Green, 

 which lies about I mile south-east of Hadham 

 Ford. Clintons, south of the Green, the manor- 

 house of Clintons Manor, is now a farm, part of 

 v.hich appears to date from the late 15 th or early 

 1 6th century. It is an L-shaped building, the main 

 block running east and west, and having a wing at 

 its west end projecting northwards ; the main block 

 is in three distinct sections, each containing one room 

 on the ground floor. It is partly timber-framed and 

 plastered and partly of thin bricks. The wet end 

 is the earliest ; it is narrower than the rest of the 

 block, and seems to be part of the original late i 5th 

 or early 16th-century hall. On the ground floor is 

 the dining room, about 1 7 ft. square, with a wide 



' Xorden, Descr. of H.-ra. 19. 

 * C utterbuck, Hiit. and Antiq. of Herts. 

 i, +08. 

 ' Inform, from Mr. W. Miaet. 



* 111164.3 the Dissenting divinCjThomaa 

 Pakeman, began to minister at Little 

 Il.dham {Diet. Nat. Biog.). The house 

 of Ralph Ba)rford was licensed for a 



50 



Presbyterian meeting in 1672 (Cal. S. P. 

 Dom. 1672, p. 19S). 



^ Localiy believed to have been built 

 as a hospital. 



