Description

WATTON-AT-STONE HIGH STREET
TL 3019
(Southwest side)
Watton-at-Stone
9/194 No. 130
-
- II

House, now shop and dwelling. Mid to late C16, floored and heated in
C17. Remodelled, re-roofed and extended early C19. Timber frame with red
brick additions. Rendering scored to resemble ashlar. Slate roof. Half H
shaped block, probably a double ended hall house originally. 2 storeys.
Recessed 'hall' range has entrance to left as lobby entry to inserted
multiform ridge stack, rebuilt cap. To right a ground floor canted bay
window, raised in C19, with first floor flush frame tripartite sash.
Moulded eaves soffit with diamond patterning. Projecting cross wings are
both jettied with C19 shallow hipped roofs. To left or lower end ground
floor has a shallow canted bay window with sham timber framing, first
floor small oriel. Broad upper wing to right has ground floor C20 shop
front with first floor 3 light casement. Right return is pargetted in
panels with entrance to shop. Left return C19 external stock brick stack
with a tile coped projection towards front, 2 light flush frame
casements. Short C19 addition to rear right with cambered heads to
windows. A C19 wing extends to rear left with a half dormer on outer
elevation. Interior: some exposed framing of large scantling. Cambered
tie beam with struts to steeply pitched rafters of original hall roof.
(RCHM 1910).

Listing NGR: TL3032219170

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26625561

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Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]