Shuttles

TL 4114 HUNSDON HIGH STREET (east side) Hunsdon village

7/7 Nos 26 (Shuttle 28, 30 and 32 24.1.67

GV II

4 houses. Probably late C17 (4 houses built for widows by Hunsdon Charity 1697), altered and extended forward after 1842 (setback still on Tithe Map of 1842 (HRO)), shop building (No 32) at N probably earlier. Timberframed white weatherboarded row of 4 houses with high red brick plinth and M-shaped old red tile roof. 2 rooms deep and 2 large shared chimneys rising through the ridge of the front roof. Door remote from the fireplace in each house and 1 front window to each floor above 1 another. Continuous dripboard over Ground floor openings with shaped brackets only at door posts. 2-light small paned wooden casement windows. Similar window central on shop (No 32) over shop front with reeded pilasters, with composite capitals supporting a mutuled cornice direct. Central half-glazed door with moulded panels, and large 3/4 paned shop window each side. Hipped corner at N with shop range running back from street. A row of picturesque weatherboarded timberframed village houses of special interest. Part of a picturesque group in this part of the Conservation Area.

Listing NGR: TL4182114201