Description

TL 6474 ISLEHAM CHURCH STREET
(North Side)

14/6 No. 2 (The
Corner House)

GV II

House, late C17 or early C18, built on a restricted site.
Extended in C18 at rear. Brick, part rendered with chequer-
board pattern brick-work to right-hand gable end. Parapet,
possibly later, to plain tiled roof, hipped at angle, with
shaped end parapet to right hand gable end and initials R.M. in
wrought iron. Two storeys and attics. Two later eaves
dormers. Four flush frame hung sashes of twelve panes each.
One double fronted shop front and two similar hung sashes at
ground floor. Stair turret in angle at rear. Pedimented
doorcase, early C19. Rear range, C18, red brick painted and of
one storey and attic. Plain tiled steeply pitched roof with a
saw tooth eaves cornice and a ridge stack. Doorway from Church
Lane has an early C19 reeded doorcase with boss enrichments at
the corners. Inside the shop and an upstairs room are lined
with early C18 raised and fielded panelling in two heights with
a moulded cornice. The rear range has c.1840 plaster boss and
cornice mouldings. The house is a good example of commercial
premises associated with a south Fenland port (RCHM).
RCHM: Record Card.

Listing NGR: TL6441274401

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26419429

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5