Description

Puckeridge TL 38 23 STANDON HIGH STREET (west side)

6/15 No 2 (Dormers)

GV II

House. C16 or earlier, altered in C18 and C19. Timber frame roughcast with red brick infill to exposed upright timbers on N flank, and red brick casing to 2 front ranges in 2 stages. Steep old red tile roofs with gambrel roof to N half of front range. Pantiles on outhouse. An L-plan building in three parts facing E. S part of frontage is a 2 storeys wing faced in C18 plum-red brick with a moulded plinth. 2 windows above a single window. Recessed sash windows under segmental arches with 8/8 panes. N part of single storey and attic in a gambrel roof with 3 tall gabled dormers on the eaves with cusped bargeboards and sash windows with 8/8 panes. Early C19 red brick facing to front symmetrical with a recessed sash window with 6/6 panes set in a panel with slightly cambered arch on each side of round headed doorway with heavy moulded rectangular frame with fanlight. Early C18 painted 8-panel fielded oak door, one of a group noted in RCHM (1911) 208. Lower one and a half storeys and single storey rear wing facing N has a gabled dormer above a timber Tudor-arched doorway. Further W a heavy timber 3-centred C16 or earlier doorway with hollow chamfer and roll mouldings and chip- carved roundel in each spandrel.

Listing NGR: TL3866123510

External Links

• Wikidata Q26470980

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)