44, 46 And 48 (Poacher'S Cottage), High Street

TL 00 SE ABBOTS LANGLEY HIGH STREET

(East side) Bedmond

3/45 Nos. 44, 46 and 48 (Poacher's Cottage)

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Former house, extended to form 2 dwellings. Late C16 or early C17, extended late C17 and C19, altered C20. Timber frame, extended in brick rendered and roughcast. Tiled roof. Core is right section of No. 48 and possibly part of No. 46, extended to left and rear in C17. 2 storeys. No. 48 has 2 windows with a central projecting hipped entrance porch, flanking 2 light casements. Nos. 44 and 46 to right have 2 windows with entrance to left of centre, ground floor 2 light casements and a blocked entrance now a single light casement. First floor: horizontal sliding sash to left, 2 light casement to right. Original ridge stack between Nos. 46 and 48. C19 left end stack. External stack at right end of No. 46. 2 storey late C17 gabled wing to rear of No. 48, casements, exposed purlins. Catslide roof over French windows to left. 2 gabled wings to rear of No. 46, that to left brick with cambered heads to casements, that to right weatherboarded timber frame with a C20 1 storey extension. Interior: No. 48 has ground floor stop chamfered binding beam, jowled posts to clasped purlin roof, windbraces, braces in walling, frame to original diamond mullioned window in rear wall. No. 46 interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL0991303633