Description

TL 5502 ONGAR HIGH STREET (E side)
9/78 Church Approach. Premises
of Jackmans Office
Equipment to rear of Wren
House

GV II

Outbuilding, now used as office. Late Cl9. Timber framed and painted
weatherboard. Grey slate roof with red ridge tiles. 2 storeys and attic
with central gabled dormer. Central vertically boarded cote to ridge. There
are decorative rafter feet and decorative purlin ends to return gables which
have finials and pendants to apex. Matching finials and pendants and barge
boards to dormer. First floor has herringbone weatherboarding to right and
left and six small paned lights, centrally placed. Ground floor with 2 small
paned casements and ½ glazed door to left and boarded double doors to right.
The central infill is weatherboard with seven plain pilasters. An unusual and
decorative building with good group value to the Church and its surrounding
buildings. Possibly a carpenters workshop originally.

Listing NGR: TL5531002979

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26593775

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair