57, West Street

TL 35 NE COMBERTON WEST STREET (South Side) 3/65 No. 57

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House. c.1660, early C19 and mid C20. Timber-framed, rendered and cement tiled roof with original axial ridge stack of red brick with recessed panels, entablature and string course. Right hand gable end cased or rebuilt in brick. Lobby entry plan. Two storeys. Three C19 flush frame casements at first floor and two at ground floor on either side of doorway to lobby entry. Adjoining early C19 annexe at front of clay bat and framed upper gable end, on brick plinth. Cement tiled. Single storey original stair turret at rear now incorporated in C20 extension. At east gable end an original oriel window of three lights, now blocked, on shaped brackets with tiled pediment over. Inside: One first floor room has overmantel of four round headed arches enriched with jewel ornament and flanked by two cupboard doorways with square sunken panelling, all under a modillion cornice. Another room at ground floor has fragments of similar panelling. The annexe was possibly an early-mid C19 shop addition, similar to that at No. 15 West Street (qv) and No. 14 West Street. R.C.H.M. West Cambs., mon.(28) Plate 61

Listing NGR: TL3779656115