Description

TL 6222 GREAT DUNMOW THE CAUSEWAY (W SIDE) 7/10 The Clock House 7.2.52 GV I

House, mid C16 and early C17. Part timber framed and plastered and part red brick with gabled peg tile roofs. The front early C17 block is of 3 storeys with attics in red, English bond brickwork, with 2 curvilinear gables on the E elevation and wider single shaped gables on N and S fronts. Peg tile roofs behind parapets and parapetted curvilinear gables which have terminal finials. General characteristics to contemporary manor houses of Suffolk with 3 storeys of mullioned and transomed windows under the gables, moulded string courses at storey levels and shallow brick pediments over the 2nd storey and attics storey windows on N and S fronts. Centre bay of front has large contemporary door like arrangement on first floor opening on to projecting brick porch with Doric pilasters and semi-circular entrance arch. Two large stacks on rear wall, one with 4 and one with 6 octagonal shafts with conjoined heads. Ogee lead roofed clock turret over centre of roof on white weatherboarded base. The interior of this block has central through passage with C18 arch topped doors with hexagon patterned glazing bars. The hall on the ground floor, has moulded bridging joists and a stone paved floor of white and black irregular chequer board. Rooms throughout have C18 panelling and some late C18 fireplaces. The rear block is of 3 storeys of 4 bays of mid C16 timber framing with floor joists with soffit tennons and diminished haunches. One original door opening on ground floor with chamfered and stopped jambs. Screen of reused door heads and staircase partly altered of early C16 with big turned balusters, inserted into end bay of earlier house. To the W and early C19 red brick and slate roofed lean-to block with late C18/early C19 doorcase on its N side with flat head, semi-circular fanlight of lobed pattern glazing bars and 6 panel door. This continues as 2 storey gabled slated and red brick C19 wing with rubbed brick headed arches over sash windows. Large ancient cellar under. Rear ranges have a mixture of C19 and earlier casements. The site has remains of possible moat. In the early C19 the residence of Sir George Beaumont amateur painter and important patron. (RCHM 2).

Listing NGR: TL6266022759

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)