Description

TL 3517
9/19

THUNDRIDGE
ERMINE STREET
(west side)
Thundridge
No 27

GV
II

Schoolmaster's house. Circa 1894 for the nearby National School
for Infants erected 1894 with E S Hanbury as treasurer (plaque on
School porch). Red brick with moulded stone dressings.
Pebbledashed jettied and gabled upper floor to front porch.
Steep handmade red tile roof. A pretty one and a half storeys
Arts and Crafts Style cottage by the school gate, facing E.
Contemporary single-storey service range extending to rear at N
end. Asymmetrical balanced design. Road front has moulded
stone Tudor arched door with sunk spandrels. boarded door with
hinge plates decorated with flowers and 2-light ovolo moulded
mullioned stone window to left. Moulded bressumer to 3 sides of
jettied upper floor. 3-light mullioned and transomed ovolo stone
casement window to right with label, and boldly projecting
chimney to left of porch. Gabled S end to school yard has the
gable top boldly projected on wooden brackets off stone corbels
to shelter a tall 2-storeys canted bay window with leaded
casements between deep bands of render. Small polygonal bay
window in angle with rear range. An unusually decorative small
house, important in the street scene.

Listing NGR: TL3590917337

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26349458

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)