53, High Street

TL 4114 HUNSDON HIGH STREET (west side) ) Hunsdon village

7/25 No 53 (Formerly listed 24.1.67 as No 51 and No 53)

GV II

2 houses, now one house. Late C17 or early C18, altered and extended to rear in early C19, made 1 house c1973. Timberframed roughcast with steep old red tile roof. A long low 2 storeys range set back between No 49 and No 55. A carriageway runs through the Ground floor at the N end and has a room over it. The remainder of the range was formerly 2 houses of mirrored plan with 1 large room on each floor, end chimneys and a lower shallow 2 storeys rear extension under a slate roof. The upper floor frontage has 3 widely spaced C19 2-light wooden casement windows. There is a continuous dripboard on small brackets along the frontage just above the heads of the Ground floor windows. These are 4 grouped 2-light taller wooden casements. Panelled double doors with Gothic panels set in a heavy timber frame close the carriageway and give access to the entrance to its side wall. The interior has exposed oak framing and squared pine floor beams. An interesting timberframed village house, incorporated as part of a uniform estate village planning scheme by the Calvert family in the early C19. An essential part of this picturesque planned group in the middle of the village Conservation Area.

Listing NGR: TL4176714124