55 And 57, Main Street

LYDDINGTON MAIN STREET SP 8697-8797 (west side) 8/84 Nos 55 and 57. GV II

Two houses, rear wing formerly reading room and fire station. Early C19 remodelling of earlier building, incorporating some C17 fragments. Coursed ironstone rubble, Welsh slate roof, flanking brick chimneys. L-plan. 2 storeys, 4 bays to front. 3-light wooden casements with horizontal glazing bars and wooden lintels, 5 to first floor, ground floor left altered C20. C20 half-glazed door between left bays, central C20 door in moulded stone surround with 4-centred arch. Blocked doorways between right bays and adjacent to window in second bay. Later rear wing incorporates wide doorway with moulded stone surround, 4-centred arch and large renewed keyblock. Interior: third bay has stop-chamfered fireplace lintel, ogee moulded spine beam with central fillet (similar to that in No 4, The Green), and cavetto moulded side beams.

Listing NGR: SP8747797107