Saracens Head Public House

TL 6221 GREAT DUNMOW HIGH STREET (W side) 8/21 Saracen's Head P.H. 7.2.54 No.2 GV II

Public House/Hotel, C16 and C18. Timber framed and plastered, 2 storeys with attics with gabled peg tile roof, parallel to street, with 3 equal peg tiled gables at rear. The front has wide overhanging eaves, an off-centre red brick stack and small stack at SE roof end. Upper floor has painted plaster fascia band and below, 7 double hung sash windows with moulded surrounds and single central vertical glazing bar. Ground floor has 6 similar windows and off-centre broken pedimented doorcase and Doric pilasters and with shelf for bust in tympanum. To the rear is a 2 storey timber framed, slate roofed gabled extension and is continued as a 1 storey and attics, peg tile roofed extension with C20 gabled dormer. The interior reveals a mid C16 timber framed structure with chamfered joists and much alterations works of the mid to late C18. A staircase with turned balusters of mid C18 is supported on a Tuscan newel post with a 'swollen column like' plinth. On the first floor is an unusual Serliana like, internal doorcase with pedimented heads, scroll brackets with Gothick panelling, with a flat entablature either side over contemporary fitted cupboards. All have original 6 panel raised and fielded doors. Some fragments of C17 panelling. (RCHM 20).

Listing NGR: TL6274221998