Description

TL 3629 BUNTINGFORD HIGH STREET
(east side)

7/10 No 18
(formerly listed as The
22.2.67 Windsor Restaurant No 18)

GV II

Inn, now a shop and restaurant. C16 or earlier inn complex with
formerly jettied street range and very long rear range extending
along N side of yard. Late C18 painted brick front, and steep
old red tile roofs. Timber frame roughcast generally. 2-
storeys, L-plan complex with carriageway through S end of front
range into yard. 3-windows applied brick W front with central
door and boxed eaves with panelled soffit. Flush box sash
windows with 4/4 panes and reeded mouldings. Recessed bow-window
with small panes on left of glazed double doors under a gauged
flat arch. Framework exposed in S carriageway with close-
studding, heavy flat joists and bracketed corner post for a front
jetty. Stair turret in angle of wings in yard has a cross-
window. Taller W part of rear range rebuilt in early C17 (ovolo
mullion window blocked on N wall: face-halved bladed scarf in
wallplate). Adjoining section to E has a C16 hall with inserted
floor and central brick chimney and blocked door and window in N
wall. Floor removed from rest of rear range leaving windows at 2
levels below the clasped purlin roof. Some diamond-mullioned
upper windows with shutter grooves remain intact on N, altered on
S side. Upper part of front range has similar remains of early
windows in rear wall, straight tension bracing, close studding
exposed in walls and partitions, clasped-purlin roof structure,
and a large inserted chimney one third from S end. Later small
internal gable chimney inserted at N. Lofty beamed ground floor
with elaborate mouldings on axial beam.

Listing NGR: TL3626229465

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26468770

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