Description

TL 6221 GREAT DUNMOW HIGH STREET (W.side)
8/31 Diabold. No. 12
20.2.67
GV II*

Shop former town house. Late C18 with possible earlier origins. 2 storeys,
double pile plan with front block, timber framed and plastered and rear block
of brick. 2 parallel ranges of slate, gabled roofs. Front is of 3 bays with
plain plaster string band to mark the first floor. Painted timber underscaled
modillioned cornice. Upper floor has 3 double hung sash windows with large
panes and unusual broad band architraves with attached console brackets. Ground
floor has 2 similar, but deeper windows, and the central doorcase. This has
fluted Tuscan half columns with reduced entablature with fluting and roundels.
Semi-circular fanlight with cast iron Gothick glazing bars and all surrounded by
a band of lattice patterning. 3 part attenuated door pilasters witlh moulded
caps. Flight of stone cantilevered steps with cast iron ventilator strips to
basement and contemporary handrail with cast iron anthemium balusters. 2
basement vents with semi-circular areas. 4 octagonal stone bollards across
frontage. Interior has contemporary reeded cornices and fire-surrounds, arched
entrance lobby and contemporary, simple staircase with plain balusters. Traces
of ashlared plaster on first floor.

Listing NGR: TL6274521945

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535001

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)