Description

TL 2656 TL 2755 GREAT GRANSDEN MIDDLE STREET (East Side) 14/61 15/61 Nos. 16 & 18 -

GV II

Farmhouse, late C15 or early C16, now two dwellings. Timber framed and plastered of five bays to main range, with cross-wing to south of two bays possibly jettied with street facade altered in late C19. Plain tile roofs half-hipped to cross-wing. Large ridge stack with three reduced late C16 engaged diagonal brick shafts. C20 side stack to cross-wing. Two storeys. Five first floor and four ground floor windows, casements of various sizes with glazing bars. Wide half-glazed door to No. 18 and bay window and door to No. 16. Original plan of interior altered in C19 when hearth was built into cross-passage of main range and backing the hall hearth, the two service rooms to the north became one, heated room, retaining the original trap door for a stair or ladder. Inglenook hearth to hall has a fine moulded mantel beam; moulded cross-beams to ceiling, with hollow- chamfered and stopped joists. Solid braces with hollow- chamfers at first floor level of chimney truss and evidence of similar, but larger braces to the display truss. Splayed and under-squinted scarf-joint to west wall plate, and series of circular carpenters' assembly marks. Side purlin roof with curved wind braces in each bay. RCHM (Hunts) mon.(37), p122.

Listing NGR: TL2706055782

External Links

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