Description

TL 0516
7/146
26.1.67

MARKYATE
CHURCH END
(South side)
The Homestead
(formerly listed under Luton Road)

II

House. C17 or earlier, W part altered in C18/C19. Timber frame exposed
in W gable infilled with painted brick, roughcast front and rear but
ground floor at rear of painted brick. Brick shows in N gable of higher
W part which has tie rod plates placed as if for 2½ storeys
accommodation. Steep old red tile roofs. E end corrugated iron roof to
lean-to. A 3-units, internal chimney, former lobby-entry plan house with
stair to rear of stack. 2-storeys and attics house facing North with W
part raised to 2½ storeys. Higher roof to W of large cruciform stack
when viewed from front but also extends behind stack over staircase. 2
upper windows in W part, one in E part. Gabled porch at beginning of W
part and 2 ground floor windows to W. 3 windows to ground floor to E
part. Casement flush windows of 2-lights generally, 3-lights to 1st
floor of E part.

Listing NGR: TL0599216775

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26631442

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House