Description

TR 1643-1743 ELHAM THE SQUARE
(west side)

9/88 Elven House
29.12.66
GV II

Formerly school, now house. 1725, possibly with earlier core, and
with mid-to-late C18 facade. Front elevation red brick in Flemish
bond. Right gable end older brick in Flemish-type bond. Plain tile
roof. 2 storeys. High painted moulded brick plinth, returned along
right gable end. Plat band to right gable end only. Plain brick
eaves band. Roof continuous with The Old Bakery to left, hipped to
right. Multiple brick ridge stack towards left end. Irregular
fenestration of three twenty-pane sashes in open boxes, with splayed
rubbed brick voussoirs; one left of stack, and two broadly-spaced
to right, all set well below eaves. Similar windows to ground
floor. Door of six sunk panels under stack. Doric porch with
moulded triangular pediment and slate roof. Two-storey tile-hung
rear-wing to left, with lower ridge than main range, plain tile roof
hipped to rear, and stack to long left side. Rear lean-to to right,
brickwork integral with that of gable end. 1725 datestone to right
gable end. Interior not inspected. House left to the parish by
will of Sir John Williams, dated 1723, to provide for education of
six local poor boys, with land to provide income (C.P.R.K. Elham,
A Village Study, 1968). Formerly known as The Old School House.

Listing NGR: TR1769343878

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26551460

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Recommended Books

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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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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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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)