Description

SE31SE ROYSTON HIGH STREET (south side), 2/81 Royston Nos 100, 102 and 104 - II Farmhouse, now divided. C17, altered, C20 additions. Rendered. Stone slate and Welsh slate roofs, part bitumen-covered. 2½ storeys. Formerly L-shaped with gabled wing to left projecting at rear and slightly later extended at front to form T-plan. This wing has C20 additions to each end. Plinth. Entrance with chamfered surround to left end of housebody. 2 bays to right ground and 1st floors of former 4-light double-chamfered windows,that to ground floor right enlarged. All mullions removed and C20 casements fitted. Single light over door. To the left of the door in the former gable of the wing is one single light to ground and 1st floors, blind to 1st floor. The slightly later, lower addition projects from this and has further C20 flat-roofed extension to front. Gable copings on cut kneelers. Ashlar gable stack to addition. Central ridge stack to house body. The rear of house body has central doorway with chamfered surrounds in C20 glass porch. Remains of dripmould above. A bay of former 4-light double-chamfered windows to left and right, ground and 1st floor, and a further 4-light window immediately right of door. All mullions removed and with C20 casements. At right end is small,blind, 2-light attic window. Gabled projecting wing to right with C20 flat-roofed addition. The left return (Nos 100 and 102) has altered C20 ground-floor openings. To 1st floor 3 double-chamfered windows survive of 4, 3 and 2 lights, all mullions renewed and with C20 casements. Small, blind 2-light attic window.

Interior: raised roof trusses, probably contemporary, form the attic storey.

Listing NGR: SE3564711476

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