Description

1. CHURCH STREET

5130
Nos 5 and 6
SU 9676 NE 3/10 4.1.50.
II* GV
2.
Circa 1670, front to house dated 1640. 3 storeys and attic, brick (ground floor
colour washed), string at 1st floor level and moulded string over 1st floor
windows, heavy moulded and modillioned eaves cornice, old tile roof. A symmetrical
composition consisting of the main building and flanking narrow rectangular
bays over entrances. The main building has one hipped dormer window to the
left hand and one modern dormer to the right hand, 4 windows on the upper floors,
the 1st floor left hand windows have heavy early C18 sashes. No 5 has a late
C18 shop on the ground floor consisting of half glazed door to the left hand
and a small bow window to the right hand on a cut bracket under and plain frieze
and small cornice. No 6 has 2 windows on the ground floor. The flanking bays
timber framed and roughcast, project about 4ft and are 2 storeys high (1st and
2nd floors) supported on heavy elaborately carved console brackets with a moulded
beam round the soffit. The main cornice is carried round and each has a small
hipped old tile roof. Each bay has one narrow window on 2nd floor, one tall
narrow window on 1st floor. Windows have architraves with enriched mouldings.
No 5 has a 6 panelled door, the upper panels glazed and a 4-pane rectangular
fanlight over. The door is flanked by panelled pilasters supporting the console
brackets. No 6 has an 8-panelled door and 4-paned fanlight over. The pilasters
supporting thebrackets and the soffit beams have enriched mouldings. The building
is U-shaped on plan with 2 gabled wings facing St Albans Street, timber framed
and plastered. Central chimney stack in main roof and irregular C18 windows
facing inward on the wings.
Nos 4 to 7 consec).The Church Rooms, Nos 12 and 13 and the cobble sets in
Church Street form a group.

Listing NGR: SU9686476857

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17547020

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