Type of building:
End of mixed terrace
Listing:
Grade ll
Plan and elevation:
Single pile, single unit and cross entry. Two-storey with attic dormer. Plus single
storey rear extension.
Summary of the probable main building
history:
Mid 18th Century. Extended mid 19th Century.
South elevation
Exterior:
One of a pair with its neighbour (BE 009). Constructed of ashlar, cement rendered
and painted. Front ground floor has one six-over-six sash window to the right
with thick glazing bars. Door to the left with its dressed stone surrounds apparently
chamfered although masked by rendering. The door has a flat stone hood over it
supported on scrolled stone brackets, which, however, are not centralised with
the door. On the first floor level there are central twin six-over-six sash windows
with a continuous sill and thick glazing bars. The attic dormer contains a two-light
wooden casement window (n.b. there is also a dormer on the rear elevation ). The
mansard (gabled gambrel) roof is slated and its raised verges have coping stones.
The party wall chimney stack has been removed. There is a rear extension under
a cat-slide roof and supporting one ashlar (shared with BE 009) and one rubble
built chimney stacks. The house is built upon a sloping site, rising to the rear
(north-west) and above the road to the front.
Interior:
Cross entry although former rear entry now opening into the extension. There is
an arched head to the door opening. Thickness here of the former external lateral
wall = c 55cm. The same wall contains a former external mullion window of chamfer-ogee
section (damaged) which now looks into the extension and cut by the stairway and
room partitioning. By the former rear entry, there is a much modified and rebuilt
newel semi-circular staircase. There are steps down from the old rear entry to
the ground floor room, which contains a large open stone fireplace with a chamfered
and plain stopped surround (the lintel is a modern replacement). A window seat
is present. The room opens directly to the outside. The roof is of a truss and
purlin construction with a ridge piece set diagonally on plated yokes.
Date & development:
The house is probably of a mid 18th Century construction date with interesting
transitional features. The traditional single pile, single unit plan with cross
entry and mullioned window contrasts with the newer mansard roof and the front
sash windows with their thick glazing bars. The extension appears to be a mid
19th Century addition although not shown on the 1840 Tithe Map.
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