The Crown Public House On The Corner Of Acorn Street

TL 4114 HUNSDON HIGH STREET (east side) Hunsdon village

7/13 The Crown PH on the corner - of Acorn Street

GV II

3 houses, now a PH, C18 or early C19 (on Tithe Map of 1842) short terrace of 3 brick and slate low 2 storeys houses with continuous 5-bay lean-to wooden verandah. Timberframed and weatherboarded rear wall. Combined and opened as PH in 1920s with pantiled brick single storey brick and weatherboarded storage range set back to left. 2/3 colonised. Colourwashed 3 window front with windows above 1 another and doors paired on left. End chimneys to each house, remote from door. Shared square stack to righthand pair. Segmental brick arches to all openings. Dentilled eaves course. Renewed small paned windows and plank doors moulded vertically with small glazed rectangle. Weatherboarded addition at rear. 3 small village houses surviving with many original features through having been combined as a public house. Set on a bank on a prominent corner position opposite the Village Hall at the centre of the village Conservation Area. Included for group value. (HLHS (1979) 53).

Listing NGR: TL4178614082