17, High Street

TL 3770 10/102

OVER HIGH STREET (South West Side) No. 17

II

House, 1700. Narrow red brick, Flemish bond, with steeply pitched roof now of interlocking tiles. Tumbled gable end parapets on moulded brick kneelers. Original flush end stacks each with rectangular bases and surmounted by two grouped shafts set diagonally. Originally a T-plan house, now with rear range demolished. Two storeys and attic. One dormer. Plain three brick band at gable end eaves height and between storeys. C19 arches to range of three recessed hung sashes. At ground floor original, narrow gauged brick arches to two C19 similar windows in either side of doorway. Original doorcase of flanking red brick pilasters with plain capitals and bases supporting wood pediment, with modillions and dentils. The tympanum is filled with thistle design in plaster. Each gable end has a lozenge pattern in burnt brick headers. A brick at ground floor left hand has 1700 and initials A.C. Interior: Not seen, but said to have been very altered in the 1960's when the staircase was removed. The service wing was timber framed. It has been suggested that the thistle is associated with Scottish prisoners of war (taken at Battle of Dunbar (1650) some of whom were used in drainage of the fens and who settled at Over. T. Bevis. Strangers in the Fens

Listing NGR: TL3763370617