Description

TL 2644 GUILDEN MORDEN CHURCH STREET
(North-west side)
12/98
2.12.77 No 8 (Avenels)

GV II

Large house. Dated 1680 (VCH) with C18 addition and C19 alterations;
remodelled interior c,1900 for Mr Waring of Waring and Gillow with Queen Anne
revival details. Timber framed and roughcast render, and painted brick.
Plain tiled roofs. Two rebuilt red brick ridge stacks, side stack and two
rear stacks. Two storeys with attics, long south-east, north-west range of
seven unequal bays with earlier gabled ranges at oblique angles to the rear.
Main elevation: Hipped roof with deep modillioned cornice, three flat roofed
dormer windows with casements. Entrance porch to left of centre with flat
roof and wrought iron balustrade, double six-panelled doors and fanlight with
glazing bars in round headed arch. Glazed double door entrances from first
floor to balcony. Large bow window to right hand and four transomed casement
windows, seven similar first floor windows. Interior: Chamfered ceiling
beams, late C17 or early C18 bolection moulded oak panelling of two heights in
south room. Early C19 and Queen Anne revival chimney pieces with marble inner
surrounds and tiled backs. Balustraded staircase to rear of entrance hall
linking the several floor levels. Coved ceiling to rear first floor room.

RCHM report 1950
VCH voi VIII p100
Sale catalogue. 1842 CC

Listing NGR: TL2788044084

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26615819

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