Description

1. SILENT STREET

1260 Nos. 15-17

TM 14 SE SP/295

II GV

2 houses, the survival of a perhaps originally longer range built gable end-on.
C16 timber frame. C18 and C20 exterior details. No 15 plastered rendered, No 17
brick ground floor underbuilt, tile hung first floor. Jetty. Single window ranges, 2
storeys with attics. No 15 has one ground floor C20 tripartite sash window with
glazing bars, one first floor C20 sash window with glazing bars. No 17 has one ground
and one first floor sash with glazing bars, one 2-light sliding casement dormer window.
Raised and fielded panel door, upper panel glazed. Tiled roof with central stack.
Gable at west rebuilt. INTERIOR: No 15 has ground floor longitudinal spine beam with
original wall plate. Second floor has inserted second wall plate with studding showing
the heightening of roof. Close set studding, thick joists visible throughout. One
first floor matrix of original wooden mullion window. No 17 has more substantially
surviving frame. Jettied first floor with studding, one passing brace and one 5-
light diamond section mullion window, 2 mullions surviving. Rear wall has 3 wattle
and daub panels. Original roof heightened with extra studding and new wall plate.
Original stack, replaced above ridge level.

Listing NGR: TM1628644331

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26554934

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)