Diabold

TL 6221 GREAT DUNMOW HIGH STREET (W.side) 8/31 Diabold. No. 12 20.2.67 GV II*

Shop former town house. Late C18 with possible earlier origins. 2 storeys, double pile plan with front block, timber framed and plastered and rear block of brick. 2 parallel ranges of slate, gabled roofs. Front is of 3 bays with plain plaster string band to mark the first floor. Painted timber underscaled modillioned cornice. Upper floor has 3 double hung sash windows with large panes and unusual broad band architraves with attached console brackets. Ground floor has 2 similar, but deeper windows, and the central doorcase. This has fluted Tuscan half columns with reduced entablature with fluting and roundels. Semi-circular fanlight with cast iron Gothick glazing bars and all surrounded by a band of lattice patterning. 3 part attenuated door pilasters witlh moulded caps. Flight of stone cantilevered steps with cast iron ventilator strips to basement and contemporary handrail with cast iron anthemium balusters. 2 basement vents with semi-circular areas. 4 octagonal stone bollards across frontage. Interior has contemporary reeded cornices and fire-surrounds, arched entrance lobby and contemporary, simple staircase with plain balusters. Traces of ashlared plaster on first floor.

Listing NGR: TL6274521945