Description

BYFIELD HIGH STREET
SP5153 (East side)
16/20 No.1
- II
House. C17 with C19 alterations. Coursed ironstone rubble, slate roofs, brick
ridge and end stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys and attic. Front to forecourt has canted
brick bay window with hipped slate roof, flanked by C20 doors, that to left with
gabled hood, that to right, in angle, with straight hood. 3-light casement
window to far left with timber lintel. Straight joint above left door. First
floor has 2-light casement window to left with timber lintel and 3-light
casement to right replacing mullions with moulded stone surround and dropped
sill. Small roof dormer. Left angle chamfered. Stone coped gables with kneelers.
Lower 2-storey projecting wing to right has 2-light casement windows and central
first door approached by external staircase with iron handrail rising from left
by small one-light ground floor window. Windows and door have timber lintels.
Rear of main range has row of four small early C19 single-storey canted bay
windows with hipped slate roofs and small-paned casement windows, 2-light to
front and one-light to sides. Four 2-light casement windows to first floor, one
with timber lintel, rest with moulded stone surrounds, dropped sills and hood
moulds. Interior has some stop-chamfered spine beams. Formerly the Rose and
Crown Inn.

Listing NGR: SP5170653372

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26306387

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback