Description

WEST WICKHAM STREETLY END
TL 6148
(North Side)
19/161
No. 52 (Mill
22.11.67 House)
GV II
House. Of two principal building periods. Late medieval open hall with
floor and stack inserted c.1600. Domestic wing remaining from a late C18
house (known as the Red House) which was demolished C20. Open hall
timber-framed, plaster rendered. Tiled roofs, with one end rebuilt and half
hipped. Red brick c.1600 ridge stack with grouped shafts. Plan now of three
bays and narrower bay for the cross-passage. Originally the house extended
further (see the chamfered main posts). Two storeys and attic. Two c.1800
three leaded light casements. Two C19 three-light horizontal sliding sashes
on either side of doorway, c.1800, with reset, wood pediment of mid C17
formerly at Horseheath Park. One end has framing exposed of a former
partition wall. At the rear is a wing of one bay added in C17. Framed,
rendered and tiled. Two storeys. Adjoining is domestic wing of late C18
house, now demolished. Framed, plaster rendered and some brick. Two storeys
and attic. Interior: open hall of two bays with cross-passage which has
been blocked by a later hearth. There is the opposing doorway of the
cross-passage in the rear wall. Original clasped side purlin roof with wind
bracing and smoke blackened generally. Jowled posts and close set studding.
Curved downward bracing. There are reset fragments from Horseheath Park
including some shuttering and cornices.

R.C.H.M. Record Card (1949)
V.C.H. Cambs., Vol. VI, pl14

Listing NGR: TL6138548129

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26458447

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)