Description

KINGS LANGLEY HIGH STREET TL 0702 (East side) 13/132 - Nos. 15/17, and 19

GV II

House, now 3 shops. C16 or earlier, C17 SE rear wing, brick front has engraved over door to No. 19 'JL E 1781', N bay rebuilt in brick with rear gable c.1900. Timber frame, brick nogged at rear with tilehung SE gable, and painted red brick front tuck pointed. Steep old red tile roof carried down as catslide over brick built rear outshut. A 2-storeys and part cellar long 4-windows range fronting W onto the High Street. Original plan possibly a row of 4 square tenements but probably a 3-unit cross passage house with wide through passage a S end of No. 17, hall and S parlour in No. 19, narrow service bay in N part of No. 17, and a rear contemporary wide bay, possibly a separate tenement at No. 15. Shallow C17 SE rear gabled wing of 2 storeys is wider than the S parlour bay. C17 internal rear wall chimney in hall and turned balusters in enclosure to stair in parlour next to door from hall. The whole sub- divided in 1781 with a double fronted house at S (No.19) and a house and a shop in N half (Nos. 15 and 17).W elevation of 2 storeys with pilaster at centre and near each end. N half has 2 recessed sash windows to 1st floor with 3/3 panes:S half has 2 3-light wooden casement windows. No.15 has a wide recessed sash window with 10/10 panes beside the simple boarded door, both with segmental arches. No. 17 has a late Georgian small-paned shopfront, with canted bay window and fascia projecting to shelter the half-glazed door. Similar C20 matching canted bays with fascias now flank the boarded door in simple heavy frame under segmental arch at No. 19. Interior has jowled posts, curved tension bracing,curved braces to heavy tie-beams and queen-strut clasped purlin roof structure. Axial beams support floors. Walls have storey-height studs a metre or so apart, and an old photograph shows the N gable was of similar framing. The C17 SE rear wing has a clasped-purlin roof with straight braces from jowled posts to tie-beam. Cellar under No. 15 has flint and stone blocks in S wall. (KLLHMS Report 1978 in NMR).

Listing NGR: TL0718202782

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6