Description

DENHAM HOXNE ROAD TM 17 SE 4/34 High House II Former farmhouse. C16, in 2 phases. Later single-storey kitchen wing to rear. Timber framed and plastered under a thatched roof. 2 storeys. 2-cell, lobby entry form. Casement windows: ground floor has 2 C20 3-light windows; first floor has 2 2-light windows and a small C16 window with cavetto mullions. Gabled porch, plastered and thatched, with late C19 4-panel door. Internal stack, the shaft with a moulded base. The right gable overhangs. Fine interior with much good quality work. Ground floor room to left had complete close studding, much still visible. No middle rail. The bridging beam has 2 cavetto moulds and run-out stops; this beam is supported by solid curved braces which rise from buttress-shafts on the wall posts, both the braces and shafts with one cavetto moulding. The end cornices of the room are similarly moulded. Heavy and closely-spaced chamfered joists with run-out stops. Good 4-centre arched moulded lintol over fireplace, the mouldings turned down at the ends. Chamber above has reverse-curved braces and blocked original windows. Queen-post roof. Right hand ground floor room has an axial bridging beam with recessed soffit and a single cavetto mould; this moulding is continued onto the end cornices. Joists also cavetto-moulded, with run-out stops. Much close studding. First floor chamber has intact studding and an original gable end window with large cavetto mullions. Roof over this cell not examined.

Listing NGR: TM1944274285

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)