Description

ST IPPOLLITTS PRESTON ROAD
TL 12 NE (West side)

3/66 The Clock House
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GV II

Stable block to Tatmore Place (q.v.), now a house. 1908 by John Belcher
for Sir Joseph Child Priestley. Uncoursed knapped flint with red brick
bands and dressings. Steep pitched roofs of gratuated slates half-hipped
on wings. Some painted stone mullioned windows. Lead covered central
square clock turret with swept roof, ball finial and wrought iron vane.
A U-shaped building with open side to W. Tall single-storey rectangular
main range and 2 2-storeys wings projecting to W. N wing designed as
stable cottage facing S into court with 3-lights window over round
headed arched opening now with inserted 6-panels door. W gable end has a
4-lights mullioned window to each floor. N side has tall round-arched
brick opening with key-block, and large projecting chimney with 2
2-lights small windows built into it. South wing has an upper floor door
to its W gable with beam-sockets of platform of former external stair.
Hipped roofed canopy over on heavy brackets. Plank door with glazed
light in upper part. Roof of S side of wing extends down as outshut. N
side has large double doors to courtyard for carriages.

Listing NGR: TL1851026116

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26396582

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)