Description

HUGHENDEN LOWER NORTH DEAN
SU 89 NE

4/100
North Dean House and
The Dower House
21.6.55

- II

Two houses, formerly house and service wing. Left range is possibly
mid-late C18, altered mid C19; front range remodelled early C20 in
mid C18 style; right end and service wing to rear added c.1920. Left
side rendered and colourwashed, remainder brick; hipped old tile roofs,
brick chimneys. 2 storeys and attic. Front is of narrow red and vitreous
brick with moulded eaves. Quoins and pilaster strips flanking door have
one course of projecting rounded brick in every 4. Cogged brick over
central first floor window. 7 bays of boxed sashes with segmental
heads; 3 hipped dormers with paired leaded casements; central 2-panel door
with flat wooden hood on scroll brackets. 1920s extension in matching style
to right has semi-circular projection with 3 bays of sash windows.
Right side has 3-bay centre-piece with shaped parapet and cluster of
3 complex chimney shafts. Left side has first floor band course and
5 bays of 3-pane sashes. Centre bay has 2-storey gabled projecting porch
with Tudor hoodmoulds over upper sash and glazed door. Interior has
fake timber framing and fireplaces and staircase in Elizabethan style.

Listing NGR: SU8545798172

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26418736

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Recommended Books

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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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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  For the Record
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)