Description

TRING PARK ROAD SP 9211 (North side) 11/96 Louisa Cottages - Nos. 1-8 inclusive on corner of Akeman Street GV II Almshouses. Nos. 1-5 '1893': 6-8 '1901' (dates and name on front bays) by William Huckvale for Rothschild estate, as almshouses. Timber framed front on chamfered red brick sill, with roughcast red brick infill to exposed frame. Red brick rear wall. Steep machine made red tile roofs. Tall red brick pilastered chimneys. A near symmetrical long, 2-storeys, E plan block facing S. S front has 3 projecting gabled jettied wings with 2-storeys jettied and gabled rectangular bay windows and 3-light leaded mullioned casements. In wider RH part the set back is jettied with 2 minor and one central major gabled 2-storeys jettied similar rectangular bay window, hipped porches in the angles to boarded doors and gabled open timber porch to left of central major bay. In narrower LH part the set back has 2 similar bay windows with gabled porch between and hipped porches in the angles. Convincing timber frame with curved braces in projecting part. Balustraded gallery to E end.

Listing NGR: SP9238511074

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