Description

TL 4113 HUNSDON ACORN STREET
(west side)

8/3 Spellers

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GV II

House. Early C19. Brick colourwashed with plastered upper
floor. Gabled red tiled roof. 2 storeys and attic 3-window
house in the style of a C17 farmhouse facing E. Wide front jetty
on heavy carved corner brackets with moulded wooden band and
plastered soffit. 2-light casement windows. Square, single
storey roughcast flat-topped enclosed porch with moulded wooden
cornice and'half.-glazed double doors. Single storey canted bay
window with French doors at S end. 2 tall internal red brick
chimneys rising through ridge with ornamental tile cresting.
Symmetrical N gable with moulded wooden band carried across,
canted small bay with tiled roof, 3-light window on 1st floor and
2-light in apex of gable. 2 storeys flat-roofed brick rear
extension with trellis-sided open porch with steep gabled tiled
roof and cusped bargeboards. An interesting C19 farmhouse,
little-altered. Part of a picturesque group with Spellers
Cottages.

Listing NGR: TL4167613361

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26395898

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)