Description

TL 6221 GREAT DUNMOW HIGH STREET (W. side)
8/39 No. 20, 22, 24

GV II*

Shops, formerly house. Late C14, 2 storey and timber framed and plastered.
Former 'H' plan hall house with hipped peg tile roofs to front and gable on rear
of S crosswing. N crosswing is very long and has gabled, slate roofed and
weatherboarded extension behind. The first floor of the front has 2 double hung
sash windows to each crosswing with a double hung sashed canted, oriel bay
window and single similar sash window in hall block. Ground floor has 2 C20
shopfronts (no. 24)an early C19 shopfront to No. 22 and a more original early
C19 shopfront to No. 20, with thin edge pilasters, painted timber stallrisers
and double entrance door. Coved eaves to front and lean-to extension on S end
with slate roof and single first floor double hung sash window. Fragments of
old pargetting on front. Interior reveals remains of elaborate and large hall-
house of the late C14 with 2 crosswings, steeply raking central tie beam with
moulded chamfers and top plates, elaborate crown posts over crosswings and
hall, with 4 way bracing and moulded capitals and bases. N crosswing shows
remains of end smoke bay that was open to the roof. Both crosswings were
formerly jettied. Timber cased yard pump to rear of 20.

Listing NGR: TL6277721888

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535093

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (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]