Description

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TL 3517
9/21

THUNDRIDGE
CAMBRIDGE ROAD (west side)
The Old School and No 21 (Mount Pleasant)

(Formerly listed as The Old School and No 21)

GV
II

School, now two houses. Later C19. Hitch's patent bricks of a buff colour, with low pitched slate roof. Stock brick shallow rear extension with slate roof. Symmetrical two storeys three windows range facing north with tall central chimney of four separate circular shafts with necking and cap in Hitch bricks. Single-storey schoolroom and porch on west end with slate roofs, also in Hitch bricks. Unfortunate new casement windows.

Caleb Hitch of Ware patented his bricks in 1828, roughly 12" x 6" x 6" having a system of interlocking to economise in mortar and give structural strength. Their use is confined to the Ware district. This building is the best surviving example of the varied uses of Hitch's bricks in this area.

Listing NGR: TL3576217167

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26349413

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Recommended Books

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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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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)