Description

Standon
TL 39 22 STANDON HIGH STREET
(east side)

7/14 No 59

24.1.67

GV II*

House. Circa 1700, rear wing possibly earlier. Red brick with
old red tiled roofs. Rear wing timber frame plastered. L-shaped
house with symmetrical street range with internal gable chimneys
and one room each side of central stair hall. 2 storeys, cellar
and attics with 2 storeys rear wing with large gable chimney and
ogee roofed conservatory abutting on E. 5 windows front facing W
with 4 steps to door, plinth, floorband, moulded brick cornice
(painted white) and parapet with stone coping concealing 3 hipped
dormers. Fine gauged segmental brick arches. Slightly recessed
flush box sash windows with segmental heads and C19 sashes with
4/4 panes (thick ovolo glazing bars remain in rear wing). 2
cellar windows have heavy central mullioned flush frames. Central
8-panelled door with rectangular fanlight in a moulded doorcase
with fluted Tuscan pilasters and flat hood on carved scroll
brackets with cornice breaking forward over each bracket. Good
original interior with fielded panelling in ground floor (of
plaster in LH room), cut string stair with carved stair ends, egg-
and-dart cornice to entrance, 2-panel fielded doors with H-hinges
on ground and 1st floors, moulded plank door in rear attic, and
large open fireplace with arched lintol in rear wing. Wine
bottle set in end of ridge of each dormer. Front wall reddened
and tuck pointed. An impressive Queen Anne house overlooking the
market place of the former borough.

Listing NGR: TL3965222288

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553810

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)