Description

WYMONDHAM

TG1001 POPLE STREET
655-1/8/137 (North West side)
14/07/72 Nos.1, 3 AND 5
(Formerly Listed as:
POPLE STREET
Nos.1-5 (Odd)
Hill House)

II

3 houses in range. Dated 1684, various alterations. Brick with
plaintile roofs. No.5 rendered. 2 storeys and dormer attic on
brick plinth course. 3 distinct elements round canted facade.
Entry to No.1 and No.3 via C19 doors under gabled timber hoods
to left of centre element. No.5 with a central panelled door
under flat timber hood in centre of the 3 bays of this
section. No.3 of 2 bays plus doors, 1 of 2 window bays only.
Fenestration of horned sashes with flush frames and glazing
bars. No. 3 with dentil eaves cornice, No.5 with moulded eaves
cornice. Gabled roofs, that to 1 of lower pitch. One gabled
dormer to Nos.1 and 3, 2 hipped dormers to No.5. Shaped west
gable head with moulded coping and internal stack. Ridge stack
left of centre to No.3, west ridge stack to No.5. Rear with a
2-storeyed gabled tower to centre, C19 extensions right and a
stepped external stack to left. 3 with circular section
railings to street, No.5 with lattice section cast-iron
railings.
INTERIORS. No.1: Very large open fireplace in north-west wall
under a plain bressumer, brick firehood over. Chamfered
bridging beam with tongue and jewel stops. First-floor
bridging beams similar. Blocked windows flank stack at this
level. Roof of 2 tiers butt purlins with arched windbraces in
corners. Collars missing. No.3: Front room to ground floor
with chamfered bridging beam terminating in tongue and jewel
stops. No.3 similar bridging beams to principal first-floor
rooms. Sunk quadrant-moulded beam in gabled rear extension.
Similar roof as to No.1, but with collars intact. Dormer is
inserted. No.5: Bridging beams mostly boxed save for one
chamfered beam with jewel stops bearing date 1684. Roof as to
No.3, except dormers are original.

Listing NGR: TG1079501882

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491206

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Recommended Books

• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)