Foundry House

TL 97 SE STANTON BURY ROAD (THE WALKS)

3/33 Foundry House 14.7.55 (Formerly listed as Premises 120 yards East of Manor Farmhouse) GV II

House, now office. Dated 1576 in a wooden panel over the door, with the unidentified initials ISAAN. 2 storeys. 3-cell plan, with internal chimney- stack and cross-entry: 5 bays. Timber-framed and rendered with C20 plaintiled roof. A jetty with small plain supporting brackets along the south side. The internal chimney-stack has a rebuilt shaft with saw-tooth decoration, and a C19 external stack at the east end has a small single-storey extension beyond it, terminating in a lean-to with pantiled roof. 2 3-light and 1 2-light casement window to ground storey and 3 similar 2-light windows to upper storey, all with a single horizontal bar to lights. 2 doors. The 2-bay centre room, which contained the entry, has an exposed timber ceiling: double roll-mouldings to the main cross-beams, single roll-moulding to the joists. A single service room at the east end, initially unheated, and a parlour on the west, both with chamfered main beams visible. An open fireplace in the parlour, with a timber lintel and stone jambs. Little framing visible on upper floor, and no access to roof. The attic stairs were blocked some years ago.

Listing NGR: TL9672573456