54,56,58 AND 60, HIGH STREET

Puckeridge TL 38 23 STANDON HIGH STREET (west side) 6/35 Nos 54, 56, 58 and 60 24.1.67

GV II*

Probably a guildhall, now 4 houses. C16 or earlier, Gothickised in late C19. Timber frame on a high red brick sill. Frame exposed with herringbone red brick infill to S half of street front and ground floor of N half with red tilehanging above. Steep old red tile roofs. Red brick S end with half timbered gable. A long picturesque irregular building stepping up a hill, the N part of 2 storeys with a projecting gabled wing at each end, the S part of one and a half storeys with 4 large gabled dormers rising above the eaves. Cusped bargeboards with finials. Small flush box sash windows with 6/6 panes, lean-to tiled bracketed hoods to doors up steps, and casement windows with small panes in the dormers. Flat 3-light casement oriels with small panes and cusped-tiled lean-to roofs on S end (No 60) tall brick chimneys with diagonal grouped shafts rebuilt in 1900 (date on chimney). (Pevsner (1977) 273)

Listing NGR: TL3858523229