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Warren Cottage was a thatched cottage located on the drive to Stansted Hall.
( now The Arthur Findlay College)
The cottage was demolished in the late sixties I believe.
I grew up close by, and played in the ruins.

Stansted does come under Essex, but also parts of it is under Cambridgshire..

Isn't it the same Warren Cottage at Croxley Green?

take a look at this one - picture included - detached

http://www.savills.co.uk/residentialsearch/property-for-sale/england/hertfordshire/26

I have also looked up this Warren House, and i read somewhere that it was unusual as house of its period would have normally been built with a Wooden Structure, but this wasn't. The building was built from Bricks and had a Tiled Roof. I am sure it was a Thatched Cottage that his Grandparents lived in as he told me it was thatched when he still had his marbles..

see last paragraph on what I just posted

Hatfield Forest
Walk through part of the once extensive Royal Forest of Essex.

Distance 4.5 miles (7.2km)

Minimum time 2hrs

Ascent/gradient 89ft (27m)

Level of difficulty Easy

Paths Grassy paths and forest trails, 1 stile

Landscape Ancient coppice woodland, meadows, lakes and marsh

Suggested map aqua3 OS Explorer 195 Braintree & Saffron Walden

Start/finish TL 546203

Dog friendliness Off-limits around part of lake; but main area dog friendly as long as on lead

Parking Pay-and-display car parks at main entrance and Shell House inside the forest. Exit gates close at 8pm

Public toilets Beside Forest Café inside forest

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In the 12th century Hatfield was under Crown ownership and deer were bred to supply the King's table. Nobody but the King and his cronies were allowed to hunt and hapless peasants, if caught killing animals in the forest might have their hands cut off, or worse still be executed. By 1446 the forest was owned by a succession of families, including Robert the Bruce, but the last owners from 1729 to 1923 were the Houblons, descendants of the founders of the Bank of England. Today sheep and cattle still graze on the open grassland, barely changed since Norman times, and you might catch a glimpse of shy fallow deer or the smaller Muntjac deer in the coppices.



Directions 1 From the car park follow the surfaced road for 350yds (320m) and at the concrete spur path bear half left across pastureland. After 250yds (229m), go through the wooden gate passing coppiced hornbeam woods to the lake on your right. Bear right for 70yds (64m), to cross the dam dividing the lake, home to many birds throughout the year, and follow the path to Shell House.


2 Leave the car park at Shell House. Turn left and follow the path south, with the smaller lake on your left, to the wide grassy path until you reach a 'wantz', an Essex word for a junction where rides intersect. You are now at Collins Coppice. Turn right here, on to the wide grassy bridleway for 250yds (229m) and bear right on to the plain, making for Forest Lodge in the distance. Keeping the Lodge to your left-hand side, continue north on the wide plain passing Warren Cottage on your right.

Hatfield Forest - Walks - The AA
Warren Cottage used to house the warrener, who in medieval times would look after the ... formed part of the line linking Bishops Stortford and Braintree. ...

www.theaa.com/walks/hatfield-forest-420435 - 30k - Similar pages

http://www.theaa.com/walks/hatfield-forest-420435

Local Builders covering Bishops Stortford
Warren House, Bells Hill, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 2NN ... The Cottage, Walkers Farmhouse, Bishops Stortford, HERTFORDSHIRE, CM23 1HY ...

www.zettai.net/find/bishops-stortford/builders/ - 14k - Similar pages

Don't worry Ann, i am the same..after all this i will know every village, every thatched house in the Bishops Stortford/Stansted area..

I failed geography - teacher said I did well to find my way to school!!

no its not.. I am having a look around Mountfichet area.

Just looked at it again and it is Semi Detached. Unfortunitly its not the right one, thank you for looking anyway.

I'm looking at croxley green now, trying to find out if the church is near to it? and how far away from Bishops stortford it is, James said it was about 2 1/2 miles from there....but that could mean anything?

Houses For Sale In Hertfordshire - Savills Estate Agents
Explore our extensive range of houses for sale in Hertfordshire from the world ... Page 24: £300000 Warren Cottage, Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, WD3 3JA ...

www.savills.co.uk/residentialsearch/houses-for-s... - 123k - Similar pages

Ann said that it NOT thatched now on the estate agents details...

no probs!! did you look at that estate agents site where I found it?

Sorry about that Ann, I had a security scare on my computer, had to change alot of passwords/names etc

I've looked up that one but i couldn't find a name for it.. I have googled it and i couldn't see a thatched cottage. he did say they moved around abit. He biked to Stansted Air Port from Warren Cottage.

all the info has been found on Tracey's thread - Tracey is also farmpoppy!