Description

SU 98 NE HEDGERLEY VILLAGE LANE

4/530 Shell House

23.9.55
- II*

Late C17. Brick, red stretchers, blue-grey headers; old tile-hipped roof.
Moulded brick string course at first floor level. Two storeys and attic. Road
elvation with one, side elevation with 2 dormers. Heavy timber eaves cornice
with wooden corbels. First floor with two 2-light casements with timber
mullions and transoms and leaded lights. Ground floor with one 2-light casement
and 2-fold 6-fielded panel door with rectangular fanlight at top of flight of
steps and framed by brick Ionic pilasters carrying a hood with carved consoles.
On left hand, one-storey modern addition in matching materials with shaped gable
end. Interior with old staircase and remains of C17 overmantel. RCHM I, p.192:
VCH III, p.278.

Listing NGR: SU9701487673

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17540117

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)