Details
MESHAW CLEAVE HILL
SS 71 NE
4/39 Prescott
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- II
House. C17 or earlier, much C19 alteration, restored and extended late C20. Rubble
stone and cob, rendered, slate roof with a clay ridge, tall lateral stack on the
frontage.
Plan: single room depth, 3 rooms-and-through-passage, lower end to left of passage,
formerly heated by a gable axial stack, this now completely removed by a previous
owner, plank and muntin partition to right of through-passage giving onto central
hall with the lateral stack at the front, unheated inner room with false C20
fireplace. Through-passage widened C20 when a staircase was inserted. First floor
with C19 and C20 rearrangement, roof completely replaced in C19.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical, 2:2 window range, 2 and 3-light C20 casements,
each with a single horizontal glazing bar. Door opening to the through-passage to
the left, C20 glazed door. Large C20 2-storeyed addition at the rear with a flat
roof, small mock cupola.
Interior: lower room featureless. Hall with a ceiling cross beam, deep chamfered
to the inner face with a cyma stop. Plank and muntin screen to through-passage,
semi-circular head doorway with chamfered edges, old plank door. Hall fireplace with
roughly smoothed wooden bressumer. Doorway with a round-headed frame to inner room,
featureless except for roughly hewn ceiling cross beam, inserted C20 secondary
staircase.
Roof: first floor with 5-bayed C19 roof, no evidence of early work.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number:
97444
Legacy System:
LBS
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