The Corner House

TL 6474 ISLEHAM CHURCH STREET (North Side) 14/6 No. 2 (The Corner House) GV II House, late C17 or early C18, built on a restricted site. Extended in C18 at rear. Brick, part rendered with chequer- board pattern brick-work to right-hand gable end. Parapet, possibly later, to plain tiled roof, hipped at angle, with shaped end parapet to right hand gable end and initials R.M. in wrought iron. Two storeys and attics. Two later eaves dormers. Four flush frame hung sashes of twelve panes each. One double fronted shop front and two similar hung sashes at ground floor. Stair turret in angle at rear. Pedimented doorcase, early C19. Rear range, C18, red brick painted and of one storey and attic. Plain tiled steeply pitched roof with a saw tooth eaves cornice and a ridge stack. Doorway from Church Lane has an early C19 reeded doorcase with boss enrichments at the corners. Inside the shop and an upstairs room are lined with early C18 raised and fielded panelling in two heights with a moulded cornice. The rear range has c.1840 plaster boss and cornice mouldings. The house is a good example of commercial premises associated with a south Fenland port (RCHM). RCHM: Record Card.

Listing NGR: TL6441274401