Description

EYE

TM1473 CHURCH STREET
585-1/7/58 (South side)
Nos.2 AND 4
St Luke's House (No.2)

GV II

Two houses. Mid C14 hall house, floored in C17 and stack
inserted in former screens passage to form lobby entrance.
Split into 2 houses C19 and altered late C20. Roughcast and
colourwashed brick skin over timber frame. Roof of
black-glazed pantiles.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 4-window range. High plinth course. 2
late C20 doors reached by flights of steps, the door to No.2
set within a plain C20 recess. Fenestration of 3-light late
C20 top-hung casements. Gabled roof. Ridge stack right of
centre and internal gable-end stack to east. West gable with
blocked doorway in canted corner. C20 casements to each floor.
2-storey cross wing to rear with truncated gable-end stack and
C20 casements.
INTERIOR: timber frame of heavy scantling, with jowled
principal posts. Early C17 brickwork to inserted stack with
wide fireplace in former hall (ground-floor east room of
No.2). In south-east corner remains of arched solar staircase
door. Ground-floor west room of No.2 with mortice holes in
bridging beam to take screen muntins and doorways to service
rooms, the beam relocated. 2-bay crown post roof, the crown
post of octagonal section with moulded base and capital. Open
arched braces to crown purlin and collars.

Listing NGR: TM1460073873

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26602887

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey