Description

TR 0446 0546 WYE HIGH STREET
(south side)

8/252 Nos. 38, 40
27.11.57 and 42

GV II

House row and shop. C16 or earlier in origin, clad and extended late C18
and mid C19. Timber framed core, clad and extended with red brick
mathematical tiling, and parts rendered. Plain tiled roofs. Although of
3 distinct builds, all 3 properties include part of the central timber
framed block. Two storeys, with attic to No. 38, hipped roof stepped up
to centre with stacks at end right, centre and rear left (roof returned to
left to Upper Bridge Street and stepped down). No. 38 with hipped dormer,
and regular fenestration of 2 canted 2 storey bays with sashes (plate
glass to right ground floor), with flanking recessed panels on ground
floor. Central door of 4 panels with rectangular fanlight integral
footscrapers and large cornice on scrolled brackets, with hollow chamfered
name panel over. Boarded passage door to end right in semi-circular
headed surround with cornice No. 40 and 42 with plinth and moulded wooden
eaves cornice. Two wooden casements on 1st floor, canted bay to right on
ground floor, and C20 plate glass shop front with glazed door to left.
Central door of 6 raised and fielded panels, the top 2 glazed, with flat
hood on brackets. Left return: (to Upper Bridge Street). Mathematical
tiled. Three glazing bar sashes with tripartite glazing bar sash to
centre left on 1st floor, and tripartite glazing bar sash below on ground
floor, with panelled door in recessed panelled surround with pediment on
pilasters.

Listing NGR: TR0555646786

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26511673

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Recommended Books

• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  For the Record
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)