Description

TR 1643-1743 ELHAM THE SQUARE
(east side)

9/74 No. 4 (Rigdens)
(formerly listed
29.12.66 with Crown House,
No.2 and No.3)

GV II

House. C18. Red brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. Central-
entry plan. 2 storeys and cellar. Chamfered brick plinth on stone base.
Plat band. Boxed eaves. Gabled roof. Red brick gable-end stacks.
Regular 3-window front of two sixteen-pane sashes and central twelve-
pane sash, in open boxes, and with segmental heads. Similar windows
to ground floor. Recessed central door of six sunk panels, with
rectangular three-light fanlight. Doorcase with reeded pilasters
and frieze, and flat hood. Single-storey addition to left, set
back from front elevation, of flint with brick dressings, with hipped
lean-to roof, and sixteen-pane sash with segmental head. Two
conjoined two storey brick rear additions, that to right shorter, with
plain tile roof hipped to rear, that to left with roof hipped to left
and right. Left addition has sixteen-pane ground-floor sash with
segmental head, and boarded door, also with segmental head. Interior:
only partly inspected. Staircase with moulded balusters and scrolled
cheeks. Rendered fireplace with wooden bressumer to left ground-floor
room. Chamfered beams to cellar. Ground-floor window of rear left
addition has reeded inner architrave and panelled shutters.

Listing NGR: TR1773643868

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26551574

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (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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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)