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TL 0121 NE DUNSTABLE WEST STREET

1/10001 Nos 34, 36 and 38

- II

2 buildings united to form one range and now with shops. Circa late C15 or early C16, and later C16, remodelled in C19. Rendered timber frame. Slate roof with gabled ends. Brick stacks truncated below roof. Plan: 5 bays; originally 2 timber-framed buildings. The left (W) 2 bays is all that remains of a building that extended westwards. Abutted to it the right hand (E) building comprises 3 bays which possibly extended to the east. The whole range was remodelled in the C19, refronted, given outshuts at the back and subdivided. Exterior: 2 storeys. 6-window S front. First floor 6 sash windows without glazing bars, 2 on left with keyblocks. Ground floor: No 38 to left has C19 pilastered shopfront with entablature and C20 door; No 36 to left of centre has C20 bow window and C20 glazed door, both with keystones; No 34 on right has large C20 shop front with high fascia. At rear 2-storey outshuts, ground floor windows blocked and first floor casements. Interior: The frame is exposed on first floor and roof space only. The left hand building (Nos 36 and 38) 2 bays (left bay rebuilt) has clasped side purlin roof, principals diminished above collars; cambered tie-beam and collar trusses, right end closed truss with queen-posts, centre open truss with central post and 2 curved braces from tie to collar; jowled posts with short curved braces to tie-beam and curved wind-braces; common rafter couples intact. Right hand building (No 34) also has clasped side purlin roof with tie-beams and queen-posts to collars, the left truss open and built against gable end of left hand building, the centre truss with close-studding under tie- beam, right hand truss tie-beam has mortices for. studs below; common rafter couples to left bay only. The roof timbers of the right hand (W) building are charred.

Listing NGR: TL0173321797

External Links

• Wikidata Q26496161

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