3, 5 Talbots and 7 London Road (EHER 38400)

Three 15th century timber framed and plastered houses with an early 19th century front. A former hall house with jettied crosswings. They have a plain tile roof over the former hall block and plain tile gambrel roofs over the crosswings. The buildings are two storeys with attics.

September 1971. Grade II * listed. Three 15th century timber framed and plastered houses with an early 19th century front. A former hall house with jettied crosswings. They have a plain tile roof over the former hall block and plain tile gambrel roofs over the crosswings. The buildings are two storeys with attics. No.3 (SE cross wing) has a nine-pane 20th century sash window to attic. The first floor has a nine-pane sash window with a moulded surround and keystone. The ground floor has canted bay window with small-paned sashes, a moulded entrance doorcase with fluted frieze and thin pilasters. No.5 has a simple parapet and three dormer windows. The ground floor has a 16-pane bow window with lead flat either side of a dentilled pedimented doorcase similar to the others but with consoles and panelled pilasters. No.7 is similar to No.3 but the windows have single vertical glazing bars. The flank of No.3 is of painted brickwork with a 20th century tripartite sash window. The flank of No.7 is of ashlared render and on the first floor there is one 12-pane sash window and a similar, but 20-pane sash window on the ground floor. The rear of No.5 has a 19th century extension of Gault brick. No.3 has an exposed tie beam from the two-bay cross-wing, with jowled posts and steeply raking arch braces. No.7 has a three-bay cross-wing with a late 16th or early 17th century jetty. No.5 has dogleg central staircase with Chinese Chippendale handrail and evidence of 17th century framing. <1> <2> See photo <3>. Sited from OS 1:1250 1971. <4> Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import.