Description

SD 75 NW EASINGTON

5/39 High Halstead (formerly listed
16.11.1954 as Halstead)

- II

House, 'WG 1687' on plaque. Slobbered rubble with slate roof. 2 storeys.
The south gable now has a sashed window with no glazing bars and plain stone
surround on the 1st floor. Below is a former door surround, now a window,
the moulding of the jambs continuing around an elaborately shaped lintel,
with a central pendant ornament of 2 scrolls and a ball. A moulded and
decorated hood rises over the lintel and the date plaque over. The 1st
floor projects on a decorated string course, which returns on the right-hand
wall. It consists of sections of gadroon decoration, each with a central
'Celtic' head. The east wall has a C19th single-storey porch. To its
south there is a one-light window on each floor with ovolo moulding and cyma
moulded hood. The ground-floor window has a segmental head, the 1st floor
window a shaped head. To the north of the porch, in the east wall, there is an
enlarged window with one mullion and the remains of a double-chamfered surround.
On the 1st floor there are the remains of a double-chamfered surround, with a
plain stone surround to the left. Inside there are said to be no C17th
features.

Listing NGR: SD7426959200

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26456855

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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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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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6