Description

STAPLEHURST HIGH STREET
TQ 74 SE (West side)

3/133 South View,
East View, and
Redbar
23.5.67 Electrical Ltd.
(formerly listed,
with two cottages
adjoining on the
north, as East
View, Lamb Inn
Cottage and
South Stores)

GV II

House pair and shop, probably formerly an inn. C16, with later
alterations. Timber framed, rendered, with plain tile roof. Left
return elevation chequered red and grey brick to ground floor,
weatherboarded above. Stack bay towards centre, with 3, storeyed,
timber-framed bays to right of it, that to right end subdivided,
and approximately 2 to left, that to left end possibly framed as
cross-wing. 2 storeys. Plinth graduated with slope of land.
Continuous jetty, slightly lower to left end, with painted wooden
fascia board. Boarded eaves soffits. Roof hipped to left with
gablet, hip returning. Brick ridge stack towards centre, and
central ridge stack to left return wing. Irregular fenestration of
5 windows; 2 tripartite sashes to left of stack and three 3-light
casements to right. Two 4-pane sashes to left return elevation.
Canted bay window to left end of ground floor, with tripartite sash to
right of it. 3 bay-windows to shop to right of stack. Panelled door
under half-glazed porch up 7 steps to centre of left return elevation,
to South View. Panelled door up 4 steps under main-range stack, to
East View. Panelled door up 3 steps and half-glazed door up 2 steps,
between bay windows to right of stack. Projecting wooden bar to
first floor, carrying shop sign. 2 short conjoined rear wings to main
range. Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed framing to right
of stack, with moulded cross and axial beams to ground floor and
gunstock jowls to principal posts. Arch-braced tie-beams. Said to
have crown-post roof.

Listing NGR: TQ7857042944

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26313895

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock