18, High Street

TL 3629 BUNTINGFORD HIGH STREET (east side)

7/10 No 18 (formerly listed as The 22.2.67 Windsor Restaurant No 18)

GV II

Inn, now a shop and restaurant. C16 or earlier inn complex with formerly jettied street range and very long rear range extending along N side of yard. Late C18 painted brick front, and steep old red tile roofs. Timber frame roughcast generally. 2- storeys, L-plan complex with carriageway through S end of front range into yard. 3-windows applied brick W front with central door and boxed eaves with panelled soffit. Flush box sash windows with 4/4 panes and reeded mouldings. Recessed bow-window with small panes on left of glazed double doors under a gauged flat arch. Framework exposed in S carriageway with close- studding, heavy flat joists and bracketed corner post for a front jetty. Stair turret in angle of wings in yard has a cross- window. Taller W part of rear range rebuilt in early C17 (ovolo mullion window blocked on N wall: face-halved bladed scarf in wallplate). Adjoining section to E has a C16 hall with inserted floor and central brick chimney and blocked door and window in N wall. Floor removed from rest of rear range leaving windows at 2 levels below the clasped purlin roof. Some diamond-mullioned upper windows with shutter grooves remain intact on N, altered on S side. Upper part of front range has similar remains of early windows in rear wall, straight tension bracing, close studding exposed in walls and partitions, clasped-purlin roof structure, and a large inserted chimney one third from S end. Later small internal gable chimney inserted at N. Lofty beamed ground floor with elaborate mouldings on axial beam.

Listing NGR: TL3626229465