Description

TR 1644-1744 ELHAM HIGH STREET
(west side)

8/41 Nos. 1 and 2
The Butts and
Old Carpenters

GV II

House pair and former workshop. No. 2 late C18 or early C19, No. 1
early-to-mid C19, Old Carpenters C19 converted to house in later C20.
No. 2 red and grey brick in Flemish bond with lighter red brick
dressings and "chainâge". No. 1 red brick in Flemish bond. Old
Carpenters flint with red and grey brick dressings to ground floor,
first floor, tile-hung. Plain tile roofs. No. 2: two storeys and
cellar. Short plat band over each ground-floor window. Moulded
wooden eaves cornice with small Ionic modillions. Roof abuts No. 1
to left and Old Carpenters to right; eaves continuous but roof is
hipped up to a higher ridge to right half of No. 2. Brick stack
in front slope of roof between Nos. 1 and 2 and ridge stack to right
end of No. 2. Regular 3-window front of twelve-pane sashes in open
boxes. Similar windows to ground floor, but with segmental heads
and splayed rubbed brick voussoirs. Central door with flush panels
and reeded strips, two top lights, segmental head and flat floating
corniced hood, up five steps. Short red and grey brick rear wing to
left with roof hipped to rear and with small sixteen-pane
sash. No. 1: two storeys and cellar. Roof hipped to left. Gable
end stack to left. One twelve-pane first-floor sash to left of centre.
Similar ground-floor window with segmental head. Door with four sunk
moulded panels and segmental head up five steps to right. Parallel
rear range of knapped flint with brick bands and dressings and plain
tile roof hipped to left. Old Carpenters: 2 storeys. Roof hipped to
right. Frieze of 6 six-pane lights under eaves, stopping short of ends.
Red post-box in wall to right end of ground floor. Panelled door in
single-storey brick porch to rear. Rear wraps round rear elevation of
No. 2, abutting side of No. 2's rear wing. Interiors not inspected.
Old Carpenters included for group value.

Listing NGR: TR1764343890

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26553192

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair