Description

BARKWAY HIGH STREET TL 3835 (East side) Barkway

9/29 No. 77

GV II

House. Mid to late C18, refronted early C19, extended late C19. Tuck pointed plum stock brick facades with earlier and later red brick. Hipped tiled roofs. 3 x 3 bay L shaped corner block with an extension in inner angle to form a square. 2 storeys. Elevation to High Street has central entrance blocked. Ground floor: centre and right recessed glazing bar sashes with cambered white brick heads, to left a large 3 light ovolo moulded casement shop window, recessed with a cambered red brick head. First floor 3:6 pane sashes flank a blind opening all recessed with cambered white brick heads. Oversailing courses to close eaves. Left return has a central entrance, recessed door with 2 glazed and 4 raised panels, panelled reveal, architrave with brackets to dentilled pedimental hood. Flanking glazing bar sashes, first floor as to front. Second entrance to far left, recessed panelled door, bracketed moulded hood. Central on slightly lower ridge of left return wing is a red brick stack. To rear a later C19 addition with a lower separate hipped roof. To rear a first floor opening with a gauged brick flat arched head, kneelers to partial brick parapet, truncated external stack. Right return from High Street is red brick, ground floor 2 light casement. C19 extruded stack. To rear left is a long 1 storey C19 outbuilding, red brick, flint and weatherboarding, slate and corrugated asbestos roof.

Listing NGR: TL3842335402

External Links

• Wikidata Q26469010

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)