1264, HIGH ROAD N20

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TQ 2693 16/5 5004 23.2.82

HIGH ROAD N20 (east side) Whetstone No 1264

GV II

House, now commercial premises. Late C15/early C16 and C18, with C19 and C20 alterations. Front range of red brick in Flemish bond; rear range a close-studded timber frame with wattle and daub infill, partly underbuilt and replaced, and rendered; brick additions. Plain tile roofs with brick chimney. C18 front range of 2 storeys and attic, 3 bays; 2-storey, 3-bay timber-framed range to rear left; C19 lean-to to rear right;. C20 2-storey addition to end of timber-framed range. Street elevation: 2 late C20 shop fronts with central passage to recessed door. 1st floor: 3 sashes in reveals, the head breaking stopped dentilled eaves-band; left corner rounded. Attic: 3 round-arched dormers with 6-pane sashes and overlights. Rear: front range has external stack with small 1st floor window on right. Timber-framed range has 6-panel part glazed door and variety of C20 windows. Interior: front range at rear has 6 panel door (near stair) and short section of chamfered spine-beam with stepped cyma stop. Timber-framed range: frame survives best on 1st floor, where there are jowelled wall posts, close-studded wall framing with long arched braces up to wall-platts and tie-beams; in central bay a 2-light window with diamond-set mullion to rear wall and later 2-light window to right bay; tie-beams support crown posts which have straight braces up to collar purlin (some braces removed), old rafters, apparently smoke-blackened in end bays but not in centre. Ground floor retains some old wide spaced joists and floorboards, and a sawn-off chamfered spine beam in right bay. The front range probably replaces a pre-existing timber-framed building. Documentary references to property on this site go back to 1504.

Listing NGR: TQ2644393963