Housham Tye is a hamlet in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

of Matching, and the

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district of

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, England. The hamlet is south-west from Matching village and the parish church of St Mary, and south-west from the village of

Matching Tye __NOTOC__ Matching Tye is a village which forms part of the civil parish of Matching, in the County of Essex, England. It is 2.3 miles (3.7 km) east of Harlow, 2.9 Miles (4.8 km) south-east of Sawbridgeworth and 6.3 miles (10.4 km) ...

, separated by the woodland of Matching Park. Conjoined to Housham Tye is the hamlet of Carter's Green. The

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is one mile to the west, over which is the town of

Harlow Harlow is a large town and local government district located in the west of Essex, England. Founded as a new town, it is situated on the border with Hertfordshire and London, Harlow occupies a large area of land on the south bank of the upp ...

. Junction 7 of the M11 is south-west, through which runs the A414 road to the

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Chelmsford Chelmsford () is a city in the City of Chelmsford district in the county of Essex, England. It is the county town of Essex and one of three cities in the county, along with Southend-on-Sea and Colchester. It is located north-east of London a ...

to the east.

History

A ''Tye'' is an area of outlying roadside common land or green, alternatively a settlement surrounding common land or green."Matching"
'' A History of the County of Essex: Volume 8.'' ed. W. R. Powell / Beryl A. Board,

Victoria County History The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project which began in 1899 with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of En ...

, London, 1983. Housham was recorded in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

as ''Ouesham''. From the 17th century Housham Tye had been part of the

demesne A demesne ( ) or domain was all the land retained and managed by a lord of the manor under the feudal system for his own use, occupation, or support. This distinguished it from land sub-enfeoffed by him to others as sub-tenants. The concept or ...

of the estate of Housham Hall – the Hall to the north and separated from its Housham Tye land. Under a 1921 purchase of the

lordship of the manor Lord of the Manor is a title that, in Anglo-Saxon England, referred to the landholder of a rural estate. The lord enjoyed manorial rights (the rights to establish and occupy a residence, known as the manor house and demesne) as well as seig ...

, Housham Hall (today Housham Hall Farm) demesne split from the Hall, freeing land at Housham Tye. There are seven Grade II

listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

s at Housham Tye: *'The Manor', at the west, a timber framed and plastered two storey house dating to the 17th century; *'Tadgells' (formerly 'Taggles'), at the east, a four-bay timber framed and plastered two storey

hall house The hall house is a type of vernacular house traditional in many parts of England, Wales, Ireland and lowland Scotland, as well as northern Europe, during the Middle Ages, centring on a hall. Usually timber-framed, some high status examples wer ...

with four dormer windows, dating to the 15th century. A house on the site was recorded in 1327, and was named after a John Tagel. To the south of the house is the remains of a 36m x 30m rectangular moat, scheduled as an ancient monument. A raised platform within the moated area could indicate the position of the pre 15th-century house. *'The Homestead', a three-bay house similar to 'Tadgells', but without dormers, dating to the early 17th century, when it was recorded as single storey; *'Rose Cottage', converted from two cottages, and timber framed, plastered and tile-roofed, dating to the early 19th century; *'Pond Cottage', of three bays and timber framed, weatherboarded and thatched, dating to the 16th century. *'Willow Cottage', timber framed and rendered tile-roofed 'T' plan cottage, c.1800 *'Matching Mill, at the northwest of the hamlet, the redeveloped base of a 19th-century post mill which was converted from a windmill to a smithy in 1881. Permission has been sought and given for a 0.5

hectare The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is a ...

lake on a residential estate in Housham Tye."Housham Tye Lake and earth bunds"
Open Spaces. Retrieved 25 January 2018

Matching parish settlements

* Carter's Green * Housham Tye * Matching *

Matching Green Matching Green is a village and the largest settlement in the civil parish of Matching, in Essex, England. It is east of Harlow, north-west of Chipping Ongar and south-east of Sawbridgeworth. Matching Green has one of the largest village gr ...

* Newman's End

References

External links

* {{Essex, state=collapsed Hamlets in Essex Matching, Essex