66, High Street

TL 3629 7/26

BUNTINGFORD HIGH STREET (east side) No 66 (formerly listed as No 66 (Tudor Cottage)

19.10.51 GV II*

House. C16. Timber frame on low chamfered plastered sill, roughcast but exposed framing on front with white roughcast panels. Steep red tiled roof. C20 plastered and pantiled 1- storey lean-to addition. A 2-storeys, 3-bays, 2-cell, central chimney plan, lobby-entry house facing W with a continuous front jetty. 3 windows long front with exposed close-studded frame on both floors, tension brace at N end, heavy bull-nose joists, 4 heavy knee-braces on bay-posts below jetty, central 3-light ovolo-moulded lattice leaded original window in middle bay, rather larger C17 3-light mullioned windows with rectangular quarries and iron casement to each end bay on 1st floor. Wide battened door (renewed) in moulded 4-centred arched doorway with carved spandrels. Large 3-light mullioned and leaded casement window to right of door. Shallow canted oriel to left of similar construction but on older moulded bracket sill. Interior has stair to rear of stack, axial ceiling beams, T-plan late C17 red brick central chimney probably replacing one of timber. A little-altered late-medieval small house with framing exposed. (RCHM (1911) 140 No 11: RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL3615729669