History

Seventeenth Century. Built in 1690's following the Great Fire of 20 December 1691 and formerly known as the Red House from its once exposed red brick construction. Of historic interest as sole remaining house built from fund raised after fire.

Exterior

Originally single house, two storeys with basement at rear where ground drops towards river. Five windows wide and originally two rooms deep, and had central doorway into passage. Now divided between public house and shop.

Slate roof with brick chimneys, that to W yellow brick, that to E (to rear of ridge) in smaller flatter red bricks (probably original) and raised with yellow bricks. Brick walls (known to be English Bond) now rendered.

Street facade has on first floor, five horned sash windows each with 4 large panes. On ground floor, late C19/early C20 style shop and public house fronts, and one sash window. Dormers in roof probably early twentieth century additions.
At rear, original building obscured by later ranges, chiefly late nineteenth and twentieth century.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29486450

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)