Description

SU 2771 RAMSBURY HIGH STREET
(south side)

10/259 Nos 83-89 (odd)

GV II

Row of 4 cottages. Early C19, altered. Red brick with blue headers in Flemish
bond, No 85 rendered; rear and right return of flint with brick quoins and
bands. Welsh slate to front roof pitch, plain tiles to rear roof pitch. Brick
stacks. Originally symmetrical composition having central through passage and
handed pairs of cottages either side. 2 storeys; originally 5 bays (each
cottage one bay with central through-passage bay); 6th bay added at right end.
Board door to through-passage. 6-panel doors to outer side of each cottage,
No 85's with top 2 panels glazed. Wide segmental-arched ground floor windows,
smaller 1st-floor windows: No 83 has 8-pane side-sliding sash with enlarged
window having 4-pane sash above; No 85 has C20 small-pane windows, with a 2nd
1st-floor window over through-passage; No 87 has a 3-light c.1900 window with
12-pane side-sliding sash over; No 89 has a 24-pane side-sliding sash with
12-pane casement over and to the added bay a 2-light window on each floor.
1st-floor band. Ridge stacks between pairs of cottages and at right end.

Listing NGR: SU2709971494

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26285582

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey