Description

MORETONHAMPSTEAD FORD STREET (south side),
SX 7586
Moretonhampstead
8/135 No. 7
-
GV II

Small house, ground floor used as shop.
Circa early to mid C19 remodelling or virtual rebuilding of earlier structure.
Stuccoed with joint lining to simulate ashlar, over stone ground floor and timber
studding to first floor. Asbestos slate roof with gabled ends, steeply pitched to
right over carriageway.
Double depth plan, internal ground floor plan altered. Set back to right a
carriageway with 1 room over.
2 storeys. 2 window range. Ground floor 2 late C19 or early C20 4-pane sashes and
early to mid C19 panelled door to left of centre. First floor 2 early to mid C19
16-pane sashes in the moulded exposed cases.
Carriageway deeply set back to right with timber bressummer and C20 boarded double
doors. C19 3-light casement above with small panes.
Interior: chamfered ½-beam in right-hand wall of main range and central ceiling
beam boxed. C19 nailed roof structure.
This building possibly has some early fabric but its principal interest is its
largely unaltered C19 exterior adjoining the end of a run of early town houses, No.
1, 3 and 5 Ford Street and No. 17 The Square (q.v.), which forms an important group
in Moretonhampstead.

Listing NGR: SX7531586088

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26389474

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)