2, High Street

TL 3811 13/17 24.1.67

STANSTEAD ABBOTS HIGH STREET (south side) Stanstead Abbots village No 2 (Formerly listed as The Pied Bull Public House)

GV II

House, now offices. Late C17 refronted c1715, extended to sides in C18, extensions refronted in keeping with centre in C19. A 2- storeys and attics 'Queen Anne' red brick house 3-windows wide with a steep old red tiled roof with hipped dormers. Rear and end walls now roughcast. Originally a symmetrical 2-room plan with central passage and small square stair tower at rear. 1- storey gabled rear wing with large projects side chimney with diagonally set square shaft. One late C17 cross window with leaded glazing and iron casement survives on rear wall at upper level. Eaves cornice to 2-light hipped dormer at rear. Lower 2- storey extension to E and W, the latter with a yet lower double gabled rear wing. Fine red brick parapeted front, hiding 2 2- light hipped dormers. Slightly asymmetrical placing of openings. Low plastered plinth. Floor band in rubbed brick and dentilled cornice. Flat arches, window jambs and corners all in red gauged brick. Slightly recessed box sashes with moulded architrave and 6/6 panes. Door in middle has moulded flat hood on large shaped brackets sitting uncomfortably between plain pilasters. Double doors and fanlight probably C19. Parapet roughcast below stone coping. Lower extension each side, set back slightly, have roughcast parapets to tiled roofs but brackets C19 moulded brick cornices at lower level. No features on left but floor band, 2 recessed sash windows and door with hood similar to centre. This flanked by 2 narrower sash windows with gauged arches. Large wrought iron bracket for inn sign at junction of centre with W extension.

Listing NGR: TL3860811905