Description

SP 81 NW
6/10
21.12.67

HARDWICK
THE CLOSE
Nos. 1, 2 and 3 (formerly listed as House now 3 tenements 120 yards to N.E, of The Rectory)


II

3 cottages, formerly house. Early C17, the rear wing mostly rebuilt C19.
Timber frame with herringbone brick infill and plinth of rubble stone,
brick and render. Rear wing of red brick. Old tile roof, square
central chimney of thin brick with pilasters to sides. T-plan. 2
storeys, 2 bays and central lobby entry to S.W. Barred wooden casements
3-light to left bay and to first floor right, single light to ground
floor right, 2-light to centre of first floor. Board doors to centre
and right. Small weatherboard outbuilding with hipped thatch roof to
left. Interior has stop-chamfered spine beams, that in left room
moulded, and stone fireplace with 4-centred arch and ornamental overmantel
in upper left room.
RCHM II p.142-3 Mon.9

Listing NGR: SP8060719188

External Links

• Wikidata Q26411328

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Recommended Books

• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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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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  For the Record
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)