NHER 13863 (Building record) - Nos 5 and 7 London Street

Nos 5 and 7 London Street.

January 1973. Listed, Grade II.
See (S1).

July 1978. Field Observation.
Visited by E. Rose (NAU).
Red brick pair of houses, two storeys, seven bays and four dormers. Central bay on each floor blank, marking division between houses (architecturally one building), and Classical flat-hooded doorways in second bay from each end, i.e. Central to each house. North gable reveals houses have been greatly heightened at some period, old fossil gable and chimneystack visible; suggest this was done when present façade added, probably around 1700. Original house probably 17th century; from rear outshut of No 7 a huge free-standing chimney rises, rebuilt in recent times but preserving 17th-century form. This section is well kept and occupied but No 5 is derelict - interior very irregular, large old chimney stack in kitchen, many small cupboards in angle beside stacks and stairs; in outshut a cavernous windowless storeroom; below, a cellar, brick vaulted with row of small round headed niches, and window to street.
False ceiling inside pantile roof.
At rear outbuilding, probably 18th century, upper floor supported on timbers including half a tree trunk, but roof fairly modern.
South end has brick and cobble floor and has higher ceiling. Whole 12.8m by 4.5m. Small internal dovecot.
Behind this again range of 19th-outbuildings.
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU). Information from record card (S2).
Plans (S3) and photographs (S4) in file.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 22 February 2024.

Listing Description excerpt:
"Pair of houses, now restaurants. Early 18th century, altered late 20th century. Red brick; pantiled roof. Exterior: one storey and dormer attic, refronted and raised to two storeys and dormer attic c.1760. Symmetrical elevation. Seven-window range, the centre windows on each floor blind. Each house entered through doorway in penultimate bays right and left, marked by timber doorcases with hoods on console brackets…Quoins and moulded eaves cornice. Gabled roof with four flat-topped 20th-century...Internal gable-end stacks to north and south. Full-length outshut added to rear c.1780, with stack. North gable with roof-line of early 18th-century house, with brick tumbling. Interior: No.5: chamfered bridging beams, ground-floor front opened into one space. No.7: early 19th-century brick fireplace. Converted to two restaurants late 20th century."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 22 February 2024.