Description

HIGHBRIDGE STREET 1. 1767 Waltham Abbey Vicarage TL 3800 NW 1/1D 3.2.71. II* GV

2. Late C16 or early C17 L-shaped building. 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows. High pitched roof, renewed tiles, gabled at left and with projecting section under gable at right. 1 original and 1 renewed brick chimney. 2 later, flat headed dormers stuccoed walls. Sash windows (some renewed) with glazing bars in near flush, moulded frames. Ground floor windows have old external shutters. Projecting ground-floor section within the L has early C19 entrance porch with square wood columns, cornice hood and trellised side. Door has 2 glazed panels above and rusticated panels below. Reeded architrave. 2 round-headed late C18 windows at back, one, in gabled extension, has patterned radial head which may have been a door fanlight. Joseph Hall, afterwards Bishop of Exeter and Norwich, lived here 16l2-34. Thomas Fuller, cleric and historian, lived here 1649-57. Graded partly for historic interest.

Church or the Holy Cross and St Lawrence, Abbey Gateway, Midnight Chapel and Harolds Bridge, Walls of Abbey and Chapter House, Garden Wall and the Vicarage form a group.

Listing NGR: TL3808700666

External Links

• Wikidata Q17531109

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