52, High Street

TL 3629 7/23

BUNTINGFORD HIGH STREET (east side) No 52

19.10.51 GV II

House. Circa 1700, altered early C19, N part of front early C20 replacing a butcher's shop. Composite construction of timber frame roughcast but red and blue chequered brick front to S part of street front. Red brick later N part. Steep old red tile roof. A 2 storeys and cellars, 3-cells, central chimney plan house facing W. Chimney altered for a through passage in early C19. Front in 2 parts. Longer and earlier S part with blue headers a symmetrical composition of 3 windows and central door with plinth, floor band and red gauged brick flat arches . Flush box sashed upper window with 6/6 panes and moulded architraves. Lower windows flanking door widened in early C19 for recessed triple sash windows with plastered reveals, reeded mullions and small panes. 6-panel door with glazed top panels, moulded middle and flush beaded bottom panels. 2 steps up. Moulded eared surround with frieze and dentilled triangular pediment. Shorter N part of front has matching floorband and plinth. A recessed sash window on each floor with 2/2 panes and flat arch, an half- glazed door with fanlight, and a 4-panel flush-beaded passage- door at N end. Sun firemark No 154532 on older part of front dates from a policy of 1756. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL3618329616