Description

TL 5249 LITTLE ABINGTON HIGH STREET
(North-East Side)

9/42 No. 7 (The Old
House)

GV II

House. C16, altered in late C18 with C19 additions to rear. Timber-framed
and roughcast rendered. Hipped plain tiled roof with gablets. Central,
square planned ridge stack and end stack. Two storeys and attics; original
building with main range to east of four timber-framed bays find cross wing to
west of three timber-framed bays, refronted in late C18. Four first floor
flush-framed, twelve-paned hung sash windows; two similar windows flank
half-glazed panelled door with shouldered architraved doorcase and shallow
hood on shaped brackets, bay window to left hand with transomed casements.
Interior: Largely Cl9 with exposed stop-chamfered ceiling beams. An
inscribed stone slab in the grounds is situated near the site where the
remains of the Lagden family were reinterred on 25 June 1948 after a bomb had
destroyed their original graves near the river.

V.C.H., Vol. VI, p9
Sale Catalogue 1951

Listing NGR: TL5339949133

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26595810

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)