Description

1. 5245 HIGH STREET (East Side) ------------ Nos 3 and 4 (Midland Bank) with gateway at rear of No 4 SO 7137 NE 2/23 18.9.53.

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2. This fine building appears to have been 2 houses, then converted into 1, and now 2 again. C17, refronted in red brick C18, 3 storeys. A parapet formerly ran across front with central pediment and moulded brick cornice. The pediment has been removed and the continuous character of the parapet has now gone. No 3 has 4 double-hung sash windows on 1st and 2nd floors, with old glazing bars (the projecting bull-nosed cills now removed). No 4 has 2 wide double-hung sash windows and early C20 stone bank frontage. No 3 has ground floor modern shop front and round-headed passage with keyblock and impost. Passage between Nos 3 and 4 shows timber-framing. Tiled roofs. No 3 has long C17 timber framed wing at rear. No 4 has late C17 or early C18 much altered brick extension at rear with roof with queen-post trusses, and good wrought iron gate and overthrow adjoining. RCHM (9 and 10).

Market House with all the listed buildings on the east side of High Street form a good group.

Listing NGR: SO7112437702

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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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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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)