Sweet Echoes

AIRMYN HIGH STREET SE 72 NW (east side) 1/2 Nos 63 (Sweet Echoes), 65 and 67 GV II House, now 2 houses. c1700 with C20 alterations. Brick with pantile roof. 1-shaped on plan: 3-room front with entrance hall to right of centre, 2-room wing to rear right. 2 storeys, 4 bays. Chamfered plinth, largely rendered. Third bay breaks forward with unsympathetic C20 recessed glazed door beneath flat arch, and narrow C20 single-light window to right beneath lintel. To left: 2 windows, one beneath stucco flat arch, the other beneath painted flat arch. To right: inserted C20 bow window and door to right (No 65). 4-course first-floor band with projecting chamfered top course. First floor: small 4-pane stair window to left; C20 casements in original openings with flat arches. All windows except stair-light are unsympathetic C20. Modillion brick eaves cornice. Raised brick-coped gables with shaped brick kneelers. Axial stack with brick band and corbelled cornice. End stack to right. Rear wing (No 67) has 2-course brick first-floor band, unsympathetic C20 windows. Interior. Beamed ceilings with exposed joists to ground floor right and centre left. Partly-rebuilt inglenook fireplace to centre left has arched chamfered brick recess. Pegged oak collared-rafter roof with clasped purlins. D Galloway, Airmyn in Days Gone By, Vol 2, 1985, p25.

Listing NGR: SE7248125161