sps1955's photos with the keyword: 2014-06-21

"House, at one time 3 or more dwellings. Late C17 [date 1687 above the central first-floor window], restored 1935-8 for Mrs. Berg and c.1960 by W. Weir for the National Trust": list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1347377 .

Died aged 18. Tentatively attributed to Sir Henry Cheere in The buildings of England: Hertfordshire (1977 edn.), p.331.

Late C15 timber-framed "Wealden"-type house, originally with a full-height central hall and two-storey jettied sections each end; hall floored and chimney stack inserted c.1600; partly re-fronted in brick, the jetties being underbuilt, and divided into 3 dwellings, in C18: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1174330 .

Circa 1620. Formerly the Town House and an inn, according to list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1102596 , although the Town House or Gild Hall illustrated by the Victoria County History (1914) is evidently a different building. The village was formerly on the main road from Cambridge to Ware and the VCH mentions that several inns are recorded in the 15th and 16th centuries. According to the English Heritage listing, the arched head of the carriage entrance between the first and second bays is C19 . Further altered and extended c.1900, when the porch and the entrance on the far left were added; the left-hand bay window is also modern as a Victorian photo in VCH shows only an oriel window on the first floor here.

Late C16, extended in late C17; originally 3 bays with the right-hand bay, which formerly contained the forge on the ground floor, added later. The ground-floor oriel in this bay is C19 but, according to the listing , the left-hand ground-floor oriel, partly obscured by the car, is original, as is the door surround.

He was the second son of Matthew Nicholas, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral - the manor of Sandon was part of the St Paul's estate. "For thirty years a citizen of London, he always had in mind (in sacred matters) God and the Church, (in the duties of life) an honest reputation, and (in financial matters) a good conscience".