57 59 High Street / 59A 59 High Street

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

TL 3629 BUNTINGFORD HIGH STREET (west side)

7/52 No 59A, and No 59 (formerly listed as 22.2.67 No 57, and No 59)

GV II

House, now a shop and a house. Early C16 hall house with 2 crosswings, hall largely rebuilt in C19 when middle and N part of street front cased in brick. Timber frame largely cased in grey gault brick but S wing roughcast with weatherboarding in S flank and exposed timbers in carriageway. Steep red tile roofs. 2- storeys and attics H plan house facing E with wider and deeper, gabled N cross wing and smaller S crossing jettied to front and rear with a shop and a tapered carriageway to yard running through its Ground floor. Street front has a moulded bargeboard and 3-light tall casement window with moulded corbelled sill to upper part of S crosswing. Heavy arch-braced entrance to carriageway and brackets to each end of jetty. Small shopfront with fascia to left. The rest of the front in brick has 2 upper windows to centre and 2 to gabled N wing with pointed attic window in apex and wavy pierced bargeboard. Recessed sash windows with 6/6 panes under gauged arches. Door into upper end of hall with triple sash window to left. 2 sash windows to Ground floor of N wing. Brick floorband and plinth. Battened door with rectangular fanlight in wooden surround with fluted pilasters and flat hood on shaped and pierced brackets. 3 tall octagonal brick shafts to central chimney to middle, backing onto carriageway. Plain large square central chimney in N wing. Low rear eaves suggest the hall range was single-storey. In E wall of N wing exposed internal timbers with low headed doorway, formerly to cellar, to S of normal height doorway. Between them 2 4-centred blocked shop windows. Function of room probably changed when central chimney -built and fireplace provided with 4- centred brick opening plastered to resemble stone. Ovolo moulded twin beams in same room. Heavy flat joists in NW room. 3- centred fireplace in room above apparently added to earlier stack. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL3618529561

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0964 IOE Records taken by Peter L Herring; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Peter L. Herring. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project