Description

TL 6222 GREAT DUNMOW CHURCH STREET (E. SIDE)
7/18 Nos. 22/24;and No.1
Church End

GV II

Former Six Bells Public House. House, c.1500 and late C18. Timber framed and
plastered complex arrangement of 2 different builds making an 'L' shaped corner
block. Facing S is a two storey late C18/early C19 block with a peg tile roof
gabled to E and hipped to W corner and with C20 pargetting. The S first floor
has 3 double hung sash windows with moulded surround and small panes. The
ground floor has 2 similar windows, one each side of an open pedimented porch
with C20 square replacement columns. This encloses a pointed arched Gothick
fanlight and door with lower panel with exposed St. Andrew's cross bracing. A
continuous dentilled cornice runs around and onto the W facing flank which has
a double hung sash window with small panes on each floor. The Church Street
frontage block has a peg tile gabled roof, with lower roof line and off centre
brick stack. Some old pargetting on first floor and one bay of exposed timber
framing showing underbuilt jetty. First floor has 1, 2 light C19 casement and a
similar double hung sash with small panes over C20 door and window. This block
has substantial moulded timber frame of 3 bays without any infilling on the 2
ends. Crown post roof with broach stops at base of posts, double ogee moulded
joists with soffit tennons. Very heavy arched tie beam and upper 3 bay chamber
seems to have been open throughout.

Listing NGR: TL6293822874

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26435273

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)