Abrahams House and Rose View with adjoining plinth and gate piers

Abrahams House and Rose View with adjoining plinth and gate piers, Main Road

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271214
Date first listed:: 12-Feb-2001
List Entry Name:: Abrahams House and Rose View with adjoining plinth and gate piers
Statutory Address:: Abrahams House and Rose View with adjoining plinth and gate piers, Main Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271214
Date first listed:: 12-Feb-2001
List Entry Name:: Abrahams House and Rose View with adjoining plinth and gate piers
Statutory Address 1:: Abrahams House and Rose View with adjoining plinth and gate piers, Main Road

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Abrahams House and Rose View with adjoining plinth and gate piers, Main Road

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
Parish:: Betley
National Grid Reference:: SJ 75394 48506

Details

SJ7548 1580/10/10003

BETLEY MAIN ROAD Abrahams House and Rose View with adjoining plinth and gate piers

12-FEB-01

GV II

Pair of estate cottages. Dated 1879. By Robert Griffiths for Thomas Fletcher Twemlow. Red brick, with blue brick and ashlar dressings, and steep pitched gabled and hipped plain tile roofs. Prominent side wall and ridge stacks with coped square flues set diagonally. Plinth, flush brick quoins, first floor band, dentillated eaves. Windows are mainly original wooden casements and sashes.

Frontage has a central three-light cross casement, and above it, a gabled through-eaves dormer with a two-light casement. To left, a hipped bay, two storeys, with a door flanked by cross casements. Above, three two-light casements. To right, a slightly projecting gabled bay with a three-light cross casement, and above, a two-light casement. In the gable, a datestone inscribed "TFT 1879". Setback bay to right has recessed doorway. Left return has hooded porch with half-glazed door, flanked by buttress and side wall stack. Two-light casement above. Right return has single sash to ground floor, and two sashes above.

Rear has projecting gabled bay to right. In the centre, a three-light cross casement, flanked on each side by a door and a cross casement. These are covered by late C20 conservatories. Above, to left, a large gabled through-eaves dormer with four lights divided by brick mullions. To right, a two-light casement.

INTERIORS: Abrahams' House has cornices to principal rooms, and original four-panel doors. Original stone fireplace with mantel shelf on brackets and register grate. Adam-style fireplace probably inserted. Straight stair and landing with stick balusters. Rose View has cornices to principal rooms and some original four-panel doors. Corner fireplace to ground floor, and original grate in similar fireplace to first floor. Winder stair with stick balusters. Both houses retain their original plan.

OUTSIDE: Chamfered blue brick plinth across the full width of the frontage, returned at the right end. Two pairs of square brick gatepiers with pyramidal stone caps. Similar single pier to left.

Listing NGR: SJ7539448506

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 486946
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.