3, High Street

TL 3811 13/3 24.1.67

STANSTEAD ABBOTS HIGH STREET (north side) Stanstead Abbots village No 3

GV II

Shop with upper floors. C16 or earlier, extended to rear in C17. Timberframed and roughcast with weatherboarding to E flank on ground floor, and stucco to front. Upper part of front temporarily covered in bit felt. Old red tiled gabled roofs. On a narrow and angled town site a two and a half storeys building roofed parallel with the street with a front jetty and an internal gable chimney on the W. A tall 1-storey C17 shallow rear addition with lower parallel pitched roof has a large central chimney of red brick. The W side of a former gatehouse to the Red Lion Inn now forms the weatherboarded and roughcast E side wall. Crown-post and collar-purlin roof structure exposed in E gable. Heavy bull-nosed joists of jetty have one heavy curved bracket remaining at W end. Small gabled dormer with bargeboard similar to those on Red Lion. Flush-panelled half- glazed door with pilasters each side. Short similar pilasters to frame of triple shop window with flush casement windows. Flush box of sash window to upper floor. Part of a group with the Red. Lion and the Clock House.

Listing NGR: TL3860911925