Description

MENDLESHAM FRONT STREET (south side)
TM 16 NW
7/46 No.9 (Dolphin House) &
29.7.55 Nos. 11-15 (odd)
(formerly _ listed as Elm
House, 3 houses adjoining
Elm House)

GV II
Originally one or 2 dwellings, now 4. A long C16 range fronting the street
with early C17 2-cell cross-wing projecting to left. Timber framed and
plastered; main range has much old panelled plasterwork with pargetted
infilling. Plaintiled roof. Original carved console brackets at foot of
gable of wing. 2 storeys, attics in cross-wing. Main range is jettied to
street. Various casement windows, some old, 2 at first floor with diamond and
square-leaded panes. Nos. 11 and 13 have mainly mid C20 windows, No.ll with a
canted ground floor bay. Gable end of wing (No.9) has 6-panel raised and
fielded door and blocked narrow segmental fanlight; 2 flanking sash windows
with glazing bars. Over the whole is a frieze and dentil cornice, bracketed
each side of the doorway. Boarded door to No.11, C16-C17 plank door to No.13,
plank door to No.15. Main range has 2 internal stacks with rendered shafts,
the cross-wing an internal stack with red brick shaft. Interior. Good intact
cross-wing: concealed studding and joists, ovolo floorbeams in ceilings of
lower rooms, roof with 2 tiers of butt purlins and one-way curved wind
bracing. Oak newel stair: original doors to upper flight and to cupboard
under lower flight. Roof over left end of main range (part of No.9) is a
later reconstruction. Interiors of Nos.11-15 not examined.

Listing NGR: TM1046965792

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26635516

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]