No. 64 High Street and no. 2 Queens Road, Wivenhoe

A C18 and earlier house, extended and subdivided in the C19 with C20 alterations and additions.

MATERIALS: the C18 range is of red brick in Flemish bond with some blue-headers. Timber-framing survives in no. 64 High Street. The rear wing of no. 2 Queens Road is part-weatherboarded. The roof is peg-tiled.

PLAN: Rectangular range with a rear outshot under a catslide roof, with added rear wings.

EXTERIOR: A two-storey building with a gabled roof and two inset brick end-stacks and a moulded brick eaves course. The facade (west) has a door to each dwelling in plain cases, central to the ground floor and beneath rubbed-brick flat arches. No. 64 has two-paned sashes to the ground and first floors to the right of the door under matching arches. Further to the right, there is a an additional entrance with a boarded door hung on strap hinges. Above is a three-over-six sash window. No. 2 Queens Road has a two-paned sash to the left of the entrance door and a C20 bow window on the first floor. The north elevation has been extended in the C19 and C20. There are two small-paned sashes on the first floor of the C18 phase, and a variety of C20 windows and openings in the rear wing.

INTERIOR: there are moulded bridging beams and relict framing in no. 64 High Street, where a two-panelled C18 door was also observed on the ground floor.