High Halstead

SD 75 NW EASINGTON

5/39 High Halstead (formerly listed 16.11.1954 as Halstead) - II

House, 'WG 1687' on plaque. Slobbered rubble with slate roof. 2 storeys. The south gable now has a sashed window with no glazing bars and plain stone surround on the 1st floor. Below is a former door surround, now a window, the moulding of the jambs continuing around an elaborately shaped lintel, with a central pendant ornament of 2 scrolls and a ball. A moulded and decorated hood rises over the lintel and the date plaque over. The 1st floor projects on a decorated string course, which returns on the right-hand wall. It consists of sections of gadroon decoration, each with a central 'Celtic' head. The east wall has a C19th single-storey porch. To its south there is a one-light window on each floor with ovolo moulding and cyma moulded hood. The ground-floor window has a segmental head, the 1st floor window a shaped head. To the north of the porch, in the east wall, there is an enlarged window with one mullion and the remains of a double-chamfered surround. On the 1st floor there are the remains of a double-chamfered surround, with a plain stone surround to the left. Inside there are said to be no C17th features.

Listing NGR: SD7426959200