Thundridge House And Linked Stable Block

Thundridge House is a vicarage, later a private house, built in 1855. A short extension was added in the later 19th century. Around 1961, it was converted into a house. The building was commissioned for Robert Hanbury, who had recently funded the construction of the new parish church of St Mary in 1853. It is constructed of red brick with a black brick diaper pattern and stone dressings. The roof is steeply pitched, covered in red tiles with bands of scalloped tiles, with pointed tiles on the stable block. Windows are casement designs, with flush sloping stone sills. Gothic segmental relieving arches are present in red and black brick, and casements are transomed to ground level. A hipped square bay window is visible on the south front, alongside two similar bays on the north garden front. The house exhibits a balanced, asymmetrical Tudor style over two storeys, with two bargeboarded gables of differing size on the front elevation, a Tudor arched door on the left, and the main entrance porch set diagonally in the re-entrant angle on the right. The porch features stone gable coping and a finial. A moulded stone string course runs around the upper floor level. High brick walls with Tudor arched gateways connect the house to a one-and-a-half-storey stable block to the west. The stable block's north face mirrors the diapering of the garden elevation and includes a wide arched carriage door, as well as a gabled external entrance to the loft, which is now glazed.