Description

HITCHIN STREET
1. (South East Side)
5255 -----------------
Nos 43 to 53 (odd)
[Formerly listed as
No 37 (The Wilderness)]
TL 2433 NW 1/28 18.9.67.

II GV

2.
C18 house and wings, now sub-divided. Red brick centre 5 windows wide
of 3 storeys with first floor band, eaves entablature, roof parapet.
Pale grey brickwork at angles with quoins above ground floor, pilasters.
Sashes with glazing bars in reveals under flat arches. Central wooden
porch with fluted Doric pillars and pilasters, entablature with triple
keystone, from which formerly projected an early C19 iron lamp; narrow
round arched side windows. Tall door of 8 fielded panels in rusticated
surround. East side elevation plaque bears date 1735. Main block said
to contain 3 earlier C18 panelled rooms, 1 on ground floor, 2 on first.
2 storey east wing has 4 sash windows. West wing of 2 storeys and attics
has 5 sash windows, 4 box dormers in Welsh slated roof behind parapet
and corbelled cornice.

Nos 1, 1B 3, 5, 7, 17, 19, 23, to 31, (odd), 31A, 33, 33A, 35 and 43 to 57
(odd) form a group.

Listing NGR: TL2426433756

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26631055

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Recommended Books

• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)