Description

ARKWAY HIGH STREET
TL 3835 (East side)
Barkway

9/20 No. 21

GV II

House, at one time 2 dwellings. Early to mid C16, floored and stack
inserted C17, altered C19, extended C20. Timber frame. Rendered and
weatherboarded. Thatched roof. Probably a small 2 bay part or entirely
open hall originally. 1 storey and attic. Low plinth. Central entrance,
plank door in a moulded surround. Flanking casements are C19 5 light
shop windows, canted out as oriels on brackets. An attic 3 light window
with eyebrow thatching to right of centre. Right end internal stack, cap
rebuilt. Exposed plates. Left end weatherboarded with 2 light casements.
Right end render is panelled and pargetted. C19 and C20 outshuts to
rear. Interior: exposed framing with tension braces, cambered collars to
soot blackened clasped purlin roof with curved windbraces, stop
chamfered axial bearer and joists on ground floor.

Listing NGR: TL3848835735

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26468937

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey