77, High Street

TL 3811 13/14 11.11.77

STANSTEAD ABBOTS HIGH STREET (north side) Stanstead Abbots village No 77

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House. C16 or early C17, altered and extended in later C18 or early C19. Timberframed and plastered, red brick gable-ends. Steep pitched roof at present covered in bit felt and battens, red tiled timber oriel on W end, and 3 slate roofed gabled dormers. 2-storeys and attics house beside the road at the bridge approach. Originally a 2-room plan with central chimney, lobby entrance, and entrance on N. W-bay added C18 or early C19 when the house was heightened and given present appearance. 3- window front plastered. 2-light V-headed flush casements to upper floor. Rectangular, flat-topped 4-light bay window on left of ground floor with a wide window to its right with C20 metal casement. 3 small gabled dormers on upper roofslope with cusped bargeboards and large pendants. Off-centre small metal window on W with 2-light wooden oriel over. Small window in gable with segmental arch. Cusped bargeboard and pendant. Inside: 2 brackets projecting from E side of chimney, and different floor levels on the 1st floor indicate the E part was probably built open to the roof with a wooden chimney, the W bay (now the centre) being 2-storeyed with a chamber over a parlour or service room. The stair was probably in the SW corner. Brick chimney may have been inserted in C18/C19. Chimney at present removed above roof.

Listing NGR: TL3829511843