Description

TL 40 NE NORTH WEALD BASSETT HIGH ROAD
4/32 Esgors

II

House, mid-cl8, altered in C19. Red brickwork, Flemish bond, stone coping on
parapet, gables and pediment, slated roof. 2 st:oreys and half-cellar and
attics. Open pediment doorcase with 2 wooden Doric columns on stone plinths
at head of flight of 7 stone steps, 4-panel door of which the upper panels are
round-headed lights, fanlight over. On ground floor 2 double-hung sash windows,
of which the upper sash is divided by glazing bars into 6 lights, the lower sash
undivided, with flat arches of gauged brickwork. On first floor, 3 similar
windows. String course at level of base of pediment. Inside pediment dentils
and roundel bearing the date 1898, representing the latest stage of exterior
alteration. The front elevation comprises a symmetrical composition. 3 large
red brick chimneys. 'Esgors, formerly Isgoe, at Thornwood, is a square red brick
house dating from about 1750. It formerly had a frontage on the common but is
now set back about 100 yards from the main road'. (VCH, vol. IV, p.285).

Listing NGR: TL4696905369

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26595416

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)