Allways

GLATTON GLATTON RAYS TL 1486 (South Side) 13/19 No. 2 (Allways)

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House, formerly divided as cottages. Late C15 or early C16 partly demolished to the east with C17 additions and later alterations. Timber-framed, exposed with plastered panels and plaster rendered. Plastered plinth. Thatched roofs, half hipped to cross wing. Ridge stack of local red brick to left hand and square planned stack to cross wing. One storey an attic. Main range including former open hall to the east originally with a service bay now demolished. Two storey cross wing, mid C17 incorporating some earlier timbers to the west with a two unit plan and central chimney stack. Front elevation: one boarded door to left hand with a horizontal sliding sash window, one six-panelled and two, three-light casement windows. Two eyebrow casement dormer windows and one three-light first floor casement windows. Interior: inserted C17 floor to open hall and chimney stack built against the former closed truss; late C15 or early C16 original floor to the east. Three open hearths with a baking oven to the kitchen hearth. C18 floor tiles. The home of the writer Beverley Nichols, 1928-1937. Autographs of his visitors, including Winston Churchill, are on the east wall of the north room of the cross wing. Manor of Glatton, estate map, by John Hausted, 1613 H.R.0. Glatton, Holme and Denton, estate map, 1770 for Wm Wells H.R.O.

Listing NGR: TL1548786101