Description

TG 02 NW HINDOLVESTON MELTON ROAD

6/39 No. 2
(Hope House)

II*

House. 1714. Black header bond with red Flemish bond dressings. Black glazed
pantiled roof. 2 storey with attics 7 bay house, single pile with later cat-
slide rear additions; 2 single storey mid C18 additions to east and west.
3 outer bays with 3 ground and 2 first floor windows and one blocked window
with painted glazing bars; sashes with glazing bars, rubbed brick arches to
ground floor, soldier arches to first floor. Red brick dressings, and aprons
below first floor windows. Central entrance bay with wooden door architrave
with raised quoined piers, console brackets,3 central keystones, dentils,
segmental pediment, 6 panel raised and fielded door. First floor sash with
glazing bars. Red brick quoins and red brick panel to door and window. Wooden
modillioned cornice and pediment. Brick dentil cornice to outer bays, steeply
pitched roof with 4 attic dormers, sashes with glazing bars under triangular
and segmental wooden pedimented gables. Raised brick parapets with tumbling,
2 end and one off-centre stacks. 2 bay additions with 2 sashes with glazing
bars, brick dentil cornice, red pantiled roofs. West addition panelled room
of mid C18, with lugged fire place and overmantel. Central staircase with
simple dado handrail. Room at east with modillion cornice of late C18.

Listing NGR: TG0384829540

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17556114

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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