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BUILDING FORM ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑see continuation sheet Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. 48 Hancock St. (MHC#726) is one of a number of well-preserved Colonial Revival houses in Lexington and contributes to the group of high-style 19th-and early 20th-century houses on Hancock St. The house is basically rectangular in plan, 2'/s stories, three-by-three bays, and hip-roofed with a side chimney. The house is set on a fieldstone foundation, clad with wood shingles,and roofed with asphalt shingles. At the rear is an enclosed one-story shed-roofed porch. The center entrance is flanked by sidelights with elaborate tracery and the windows are 1/1 double hung sash. The rectangular plan is broken by a number of projecting bays, including a circular bay with conical roof at the southeast corner, and there are hip-roofed dormers on either side. The house has many ornamental exterior finishes: a wide molded cornice with modilrions and a dentil course underneath, an oculus window in the front gable,a palladian widow with lancet panes over the main entry,a second story wall that flares outward at the base and has a band of molding underneath, a small stained glass window with a pilastered and dentil-coursed surround on the south elevation,a large palladian window with elaborate stained glass on the north elevation, and, on this same elevation, an oval window and an oriel window with small circular and semi-circular panes. The former carriage house(MHC#727),now a garage, is clapboarded, side-gabled, has a hay door in a center gable, and cupola vent. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE ❑see continuation sheet Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. This house was built in 1903 by Warren M. Batcheller, who lived at 46 Hancock St. (MHC#725). In 1888 Batcheller bought the lot on which this house stands, which at the time had an older house on it. In 1897 he built the house now at 46 Hancock St. on the lot, in 1902 sold the old house (it was moved to Bedford St.), and in 1903 was assessed for"1 house"(46 Hancock St.)and "2 unfinished houses"(this house and the one at 50 Hancock St. [MHC#7281). The latter two houses were finished by 1904. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet Lexington Valuation Lists. 1903-1904. Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 1871: 20. Worthen, Edwin B. to Mrs. Bruce Currie, 16 February 1951. Worthen Collection. Cary Library, Lexington, MA. ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.