Description

TL 2826 WALKERN HIGH STREET
(west side)

7/14 No 78
(formerly listed as No 78
24.11.66 The Old Hawthornes)

GV II

House. Cl7 or earlier, NE wing early C18. Timber frame on
stucco sill, roughcast with steep old red tile roofs. A one and
a half storeys, 3-cell, central-chimney plan house with entrance
now in E gable end to road. One and a half storeys NE extension
with N gable chimney projecting a little. Large central chimney,
with oven off middle room, a third from E end. Tall conjoined
square shafts above roof. C20 small external chimney on S wall.
E front has gable on left with 2-light top hung leaded casement
above continuous dripboard at level of eaves. Lean-to timber
open porch to oak plank door (renewed). Gabled dormer on the
eaves to right with similar 2 light flush casement window below.
Gabled dormer to room over middle room, on S side, with 3 small
windows to ground floor. Tiled lean-to set back at W end. 3-bay
struture with side purl in roof. Similar roof to NE extension. A
most picturesque village house.

Listing NGR: TL2889126317

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26470444

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (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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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)