The Baish Almshouses And Attached Forecourt Wall

TL 31NW STANSTEAD ABBOTS ROYDON ROAD (south side) Stanstead Abbots village 5/51 Nos 79 to 89 (odd) (The Baish Almshouses) and attached forecourt 4.12.51 wall) (Formerly listed as The Baish's GV Almhouses) II*

Almshouses. 1653 for Sir Edward Baesh. Red brick in English- bond with a long steep old red tiled roof. A single storey row of 3 handed pairs of almshouses facing NW. Each pair has 2 plank doors together, in a heavy chamfered wooden frame, a 3- light ovolo-moulded casement window with ironcentral opening light for each house, a gable over the door with a single small 2-light ovolo-moulded window with leaded lattice glazing, and a shared central chimney with a pair of diagonally set shafts. Toothed corbel course below the eaves and low plastered plinth. Modern single-storey small additions at rear and each end. Red brick wall around elongated forecourt garden, taller at ends, reduced at front but with heavy sloped brick coping reinstated. Square gatepiers with stone caps and C20 wrought iron gate. A landmark at a bend in the road at the S end of the village.

Listing NGR: TL3901511533