Description

GLATTON GLATTON RAYS
TL 1486
(South Side)
13/19 No. 2 (Allways)

II

House, formerly divided as cottages. Late C15 or early C16 partly demolished
to the east with C17 additions and later alterations. Timber-framed, exposed
with plastered panels and plaster rendered. Plastered plinth. Thatched
roofs, half hipped to cross wing. Ridge stack of local red brick to left hand
and square planned stack to cross wing. One storey an attic. Main range
including former open hall to the east originally with a service bay now
demolished. Two storey cross wing, mid C17 incorporating some earlier timbers
to the west with a two unit plan and central chimney stack. Front elevation:
one boarded door to left hand with a horizontal sliding sash window, one
six-panelled and two, three-light casement windows. Two eyebrow casement
dormer windows and one three-light first floor casement windows. Interior:
inserted C17 floor to open hall and chimney stack built against the former
closed truss; late C15 or early C16 original floor to the east. Three open
hearths with a baking oven to the kitchen hearth. C18 floor tiles. The home
of the writer Beverley Nichols, 1928-1937. Autographs of his visitors,
including Winston Churchill, are on the east wall of the north room of the
cross wing.
Manor of Glatton, estate map, by John Hausted, 1613 H.R.0.
Glatton, Holme and Denton, estate map, 1770 for Wm Wells H.R.O.

Listing NGR: TL1548786101

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26510272

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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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