Description

TL 32NE BUNTINGFORD HARE STREET ROAD
(south side)

4/8 Alswick Hall

19.10.51

GV II

Country house. C16 E range, early C17 main range with front
altered in early C19 and then largely rebuilt after fire in
1950s. Timber frame on brick plinth largely exposed timbers with
roughcast panels, and fan pargetting also on E wing. Steep old
red tile roofs. A large 2-storeys T-plan house with main range
facing W over brick revetted terrace above remains of moat.
Through-passage near middle, with service end to N with external
gable chimney, hall to S with rear lateral fireplace backing onto
fireplace in brewhouse in E wing. Parlour at S end with external
gable chimney. Stair tower in SE angle of wings with entrance
from hall. 2-storeys E wing on rising slope with one and a half
storeys part with 2 gabled dormer on each side. 9 windows long W
front with cross windows and leaded glazing (windows renewed),
chamfered red brick plinth, large gabled porch with double doors,
and paired tall square chimney shafts set diagonally on chimneys
at each end. Exposed framing of rear wall shows the house to
have been heightened by 1 metre. Interior had 4-centred moulded
stone fireplace in parlour, and C16 clasped-purlin roofs to E
range. Large Composite Order stone capital used as wellhead next
S end of house. (RCHM (1911) 139 No 4: VCH (1914) 80-1: RCHM
Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL3774129409

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26394649

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Recommended Books

• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  For the Record
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)