Description

TL 6221 GREAT DUNMOW HIGH STREET (E side)
8/30 White Horse Public
24.3.81 House - No. 15

GV II*

Former Public House, early C14 and early C19. Two storey, timber framed and
plastered with gabled peg tile roof on front. Rear shows 2 gabled wings and
large, single storey, peg tile roofed rear extension. Front to High Street has
3 gabled dormers with casements with scalloped bargeboards and C19 crested ridge
tiles. 1st floor has 4 small pane C20 casements. Off-centre early C19
doorcase with fluted half columns, flat hood and parallel frieze. Surrounding
this, a shopfront like arrangement with 7 Doric pilasters enclosing C20 small
panes windows. Former jetty indicated by curved, soffitted overhang on S end to
alleyway. Formerly 2 crosswings, the one to the S being jettied on S,E and W
sides with curved dragonposts partly exposed. Unusual crown post roof with
jowled crown post and down braces. Thick multiple bracing on S ground floor
wall. N crosswing is probably former pair of C14 shops and has soot blackened
crown post of E C14 form with chamfered post, thick straightish braces, down
bracing to tie beam and splayed scarf joint. Roof rebuilt at front in early
C19. (RCHM 17.)

Listing NGR: TL6277221964

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17533747

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings