Description

TL 2797 WHITTLESEY GRACIOUS STREET
(North Side)

20/85 No. 4
(The Lindens)

GV II

House, early C18 with later C18 additions at the rear. Front and rear walls
timber framed, plaster rendered with contemporary tumbled brick gabled ends,
now painted. Reed thatch roof and end stacks. Front range with kitchen wing
at rear forming an L-plan, with stair turret in angle. Two storeys.
Original architraves to two, three-light casements. Central doorway with
original doorcase, pulvinated frieze and flat canopy with panelled soffit.
Door of six raised and fielded panels and two small glazed upper panels.
Kitchen wing of brick, painted, with steeply pitched reed thatch roof. Other
additions have been made at the back of the main range and one has possibly
had the lean-to roof raised. There is a mid C19 gault brick wash-house and
stable range within the curtilage of the house. Inside there is some exposed
framing and one flight of the staircase with square newel and turned
balusters. The first floor retains the vertical raised and fielded panelling
found also at Nos. 2, 3 The Bower, Whittlesey (q.v.) and No. 11 Claygate
(q.v.).

Listing NGR: TL2703797301

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26521871

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)