Description

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TQ 7444
5/75

MARDEN
HIGH STREET (south-west side)
John's Hairdresser, Marsida, and The Old Sweet Shop

(Formerly listed as John's Hairdresser, Marsida, No.3, and Vicky Clark)

GV
II
House and shop row. Late C17, with late C18 or early C19 facade. Timber framed. Ground floor red brick in Flemish bond, first floor hung with banded plain and fishscale tiles. Exposed framing to right side of passage to former No.3. Plain tile roof. Two relatively tall storeys. Moulded wooden fillet to base of tile-hanging. Gabled. Brick ridge stack towards left end and to right end. Irregular fenestration of three sixteen-pane sashes; one under and one to left of stack, nothing to centre, and one to right. Half-glazed door to John's shop-front to left, panelled door with rectangular three-light fanlight to Marsida to right of stack, with passage to former No.3 adjacent to it to right, and half-glazed door to right end of Vhe Old Sweet Shop's late C19 or early C20 shop-front to right end. Two short rear wings with roofs hipped to rear.

Interior: only partly inspected.The Old Sweet Shop has chamfered cross and axial beam to each floor, large shaped jowl and straight tension brace to rear corner post, and clasped-purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TQ7463944535

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26313816

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)