38, Gaddesden Row

GREAT GADDESDEN GADDESDEN ROW TL 0l SE (North side) 4/82 No. 38 - GV II

House. C16, altered later C17, brick W part early C18, renovated c.1980. Timber frame on brick sill faced with red brick on ground floor and red tilehanging with scalloped band on 1st floor, W end in red brick chequered with vitrified blue headers. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys house set back from road facing S with higher W part's roof carried down as catslide to front sheltering a corner porch. A 2-bays structure probably formerly open to roof with floor inserted and W end chimney added in later C17. Early C18 W service bay possibly replaces flimsier lower one, as decorative rib on W face of chimney now in attic of W extension. S front has gabled dormer at W and 2, 2-light casement windows. 3-light casements to ground floor. Large internal chimney emerges in higher roof next to lower part. Interior has jowled posts, straight heavy braces to tie beams, straight-tension braces in long walls, wide-spaced studs exposed in front and rear walls on both floors, chamfered axial beams with hollow stops and heavy squared joists, squint-butted scarf joints in wall-plates, clasped-purlin roof with collar-and-queen-strut trusses, and straight wind-braces. Interior full-height framed partition divides 2 bays of older part. Large open fireplace serves only hall (middle room) and stairs to cellar and 1st floor beside chimney on S. Deep well in cellar below W end.

Listing NGR: TL0592012203