68 And 74, High Street

BARKWAY HIGH STREET TL 3835 (West side) Barkway

9/44 Nos. 68 and 74 27.5.68 (formerly listed as No. 68 and Nos. 70, 72, 74)

GV II

Two houses, at one time 4 dwellings. Probably late C16 and early C17, the later house to right refronted in late C18. Altered C19. Timber frames, rendered with a red brick cased end wall. Steeply pitched tiled roof with decorative fishscale bands and crest tiles. 2 storeys, cellar to right. Both had continuous jettied fronts originally, only a small vestige remaining of jetty to refronted house to right. No. 74 to left is 2 bays. Ground floor: 2 entrances, to left a recessed 6 panelled door, to right a 2 fielded panelled door, C19 3 light flush moulded frame lattice casements with cornices. Bull nosed joists to jettied first floor, similar 2 light casements. C18 ridge stack to left of centre. External left end stack. No. 68 is 3 bays. Plinth with cellar window to right. Ground floor: steps up to entrance to right of centre, recessed 6 fielded panelled door with bracketed raking slate hood, flanking 3 light casements as on No. 74. Left bay has a second entrance with a 6 panelled door, a similar casement and a section of original jetty higher than that on No. 74. Similar 2 light casements on first floor. Cross axial stack to left of centre. Right gable end early C19 red brick: plinth, kneelers to parapet, extruded stack behind ridge with offsets, earlier brick at base. Catslide roof over shallow weatherboarded lean-to outshut to rear of No. 68. Later short brick cased gabled wing to rear of No. 74. Interior: No. 68 has stop chamfered bearers, tension braces, jowled posts, cambered tie beams, clasped purlin roof. What is here described as the right hand bay of No. 68 is in fact part of No. 1 Church Lane (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TL3843235615