Description

TL 6221 GREAT DUNMOW HIGH STREET (W side)
8/21 Saracen's Head P.H.
7.2.54 No.2
GV II

Public House/Hotel, C16 and C18. Timber framed and plastered, 2 storeys with
attics with gabled peg tile roof, parallel to street, with 3 equal peg tiled
gables at rear. The front has wide overhanging eaves, an off-centre red brick
stack and small stack at SE roof end. Upper floor has painted plaster fascia
band and below, 7 double hung sash windows with moulded surrounds and single
central vertical glazing bar. Ground floor has 6 similar windows and off-centre
broken pedimented doorcase and Doric pilasters and with shelf for bust in
tympanum. To the rear is a 2 storey timber framed, slate roofed gabled
extension and is continued as a 1 storey and attics, peg tile roofed extension
with C20 gabled dormer. The interior reveals a mid C16 timber framed structure
with chamfered joists and much alterations works of the mid to late C18. A
staircase with turned balusters of mid C18 is supported on a Tuscan newel post
with a 'swollen column like' plinth. On the first floor is an unusual Serliana
like, internal doorcase with pedimented heads, scroll brackets with Gothick
panelling, with a flat entablature either side over contemporary fitted
cupboards. All have original 6 panel raised and fielded doors. Some fragments
of C17 panelling. (RCHM 20).

Listing NGR: TL6274221998

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613593

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014