The Old Estate House

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

NORTH MOLTON THE SQUARE (east side), SS 7229-7329 18/202 The Old Estate House - GV II House. Mid C19, probably incorporating some C17 fabric. Stone rubble, rendered to front. Gable-ended asbestos-slate roofs. Brick stacks.

Plan: L-plan. Two-unit central entrance plan front range, with integral end stack to left-hand room, probably lateral stack to rear of right-hand room, and staircase in central entrance hall. Wing to rear of left-hand room, with integral brick end stack. Two storeys. Exterior: Not quite symmetrical 3-bay front the windows disposed to the right; C19 four-pane sashes. Central early C19 six-panelled door (lower panels beaded flush, middle panels moulded recesed and upper panels glazed), with beaded pegged frame, and probably C20 pent-roofed porch. Shaped barge boards to left-hand gable end.

Interior: Entrance hall with C19 encaustic-tile floor. Early to mid C19 staircase with closed string, stick balusters and turned newel posts. Mid C19 four panelled doors. Left-hand ground-floor room has tall open fireplace with stone jambs and probably reused C17 chamfered wood lintel, with scroll stop to left (roight-hand end of lintel truncated). Plastered chamfered cross beam in ground-floor rear room (present kitchen). First floor and roofspace not inspected.



Listing NGR: SS7370829875

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1083 Ioe Records Taken By Michael Ireland; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Michael Ireland. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project