The Fortress

TQ 19 NE ALDENHAM COMMON LANE (North side) Letchmore Heath

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House. Late C18 or early C19, extended and altered c.1850-60. Stock brick, stuccoed. Slate roofs. Originally 4 window front. 2 storeys. Entrance in 3rd bay from right with Tuscan porch. Casements. Ground floor: two 3-light windows to right, 4-light window to left, moulded architraves with slightly cambered heads and bracketed sills. Floating bracketed cornices. First floor: 2-lights to left, 3-lights to right. Cornice to coped parapet with right end corner stack. 1 bay extension to left set back. 3-light casements, segmental head on first floor. Left return stack extruded with decorated pots, similar stack at original left end. Right return: plain brick with a full height canted bay. Flat roofed I storey outshut to rear right. To rear: mid C19 extension to left, parapet stepped up at angles. Garden entrance with sidelights and a bracketed cornice. First floor round headed staircase window, ornamented architrave. Stack with 4 decorated pots. To rear right is mid C19 square tower slightly taller than rest of house with round headed windows, stone balustraded parapet, corner ball finials. Octagonal stained glass lantern. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ1516797873