Description

TL 47 NE HADDENHAM HILL ROAD
(North side)
8/15
Porch House
5.2.52
II

House. 1657. Red brick, English bond, on plinth with bull nose header brick
to upper edge. Plain tiled roof with saw tooth eaves cornice and parapet on
kneelers to west gable. Ridge stack has square base and four diagonally set
grouped shafts. Original stack at east end has been rebuilt, retaining dentil
corbel table. Lobby entry plan with contemporary porch on the front and
outshut at the rear. Two storeys with two brick plat band between. Two
storey porch. Hipped plain tiled roof with similar eaves cornice and plat
band brickwork carried round from the house front. The front wall band
however is of moulded brickwork. One modern leaded light casement to each
side of first floor of porch. Original doorway in round headed arch with
pedimented doorcase of moulded brick, on pilasters with moulded capitals and
bases. Dated stone panel, chamfered, to the tympanum and a corbel to the
lower edge of the pediment. The house has three modern first floor leaded
light casements and three at ground floor. Gable ends with original window
openings under elliptical header brick arches. The outshut has been partly
rebuilt but the east end wall is original and retains the original dairy or
scullery doorway. Interior. Abutting hearths, one an inglenook to the hall
having salt and spice ledges. A parlour on the west side has a smaller hearth
now with modern surround. The ceiling frame is exposed. A main beam has
ovolo moulding and ogee stop chamfers. The joists are unmoulded. The hall
has similar moulding to the main beam. A kitchen at the east end has an
inglenook and plain stop chamfered main beam. There is a bread oven possibly
later at the rear of the inglenook. At first floor a chamber in the room at
the west end has an original fireplace under an arched head with moulding.
There is part of a marble frieze above. In the 1650s an Act of Parliament was
passed to promote the drainage of part of Haddenham Parish. This house is
believed to have been built to accommodate one ofthe engineers employed on the
scheme.

Listing NGR: TL4511475640

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26616382

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)