Description

TG 01 NE
4/21

ELSING
SCHOOL ROAD (west side)
Guild House

- II

House. Mid C17 and later.
Brick in English bond with French pantile roof. Brick and flint plinth. Single bay plan with later side addition. 2 storeys and cellar. North facade with doorway opposite gable-end stack. Door with moulded cover strips. One 2-light and one 3-light chamfered mullion windows. Row of 11 small shallow niches with arched heads beneath eaves: probably former pigeon nesting boxes. C18 dentil cornice. Nest gable-end with 2 original window openings with stuccoed moulded brick pediments and modern 5-light windows. Gable rebuilt to shallow pitch. Traces of diaper pattern in black headers to both sides of first floor window. South facade with 2 original large window openings with moulded brick pediment to ground floor window.only. Modern 5-light frames. Ovolo-moulded 2-light mullion window opposite stack. East gable-end projects beyond line of gable resembling a staged buttress. Rebuilt gable. Modern extensions to this gable-end and to south.
Interior. Several original doorways with ogee and nicked chamfer stops. Winding stair beside stack formerly leading to both cellar and attic. One ovolo-moulded spinal bridging joist with ogee and nicked chamfer stops. Fireplace with cambered bressumner. Cellar takes up the full bay and was formerly lit by 3 splayed windows.

Listing NGR: TG0529316977

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26462275

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6