Description

CLOVELLY CLOVELLY
SS 3124

11/33 Nos 22 and 23 with
forecourt and railings

GV II

Pair of houses, ground floor of part of each amalgamated and used as a post office.
C19, raised plaster on each:- "F.C.H. 1904", marking their rebuilding by Christine
Hamlyn. Rendered and whitewashed, gable-ended slate, C19 roofs with clay ridges; 2-
large off-ridge brick stacks at the rear.
Plan: 2 attached houses in similar style, stepped down the steeply falling village
street.
Exterior: 2 storeys and attic, 3:3 windows on the first floor, attics with gabled
half-dormers with bracketted eaves. Right house with 2 light 12-pane 1904
casements, to left 2-light 1904 mullioned and transomed casements with square-paned
leaded lights. Large projecting mid C20 shop front to the left, 3-lights, low-
pitched hipped slate roof, door to left, 6-panelled door. To left of shop front,
the door opening to No. 22, half-glazed door. Door opening to No 23 to right, half-
glazed door, rubble porch with cambered corners, plain outer opening, dentil
cornice, roof forming a balcony with curved scrolly wrought-iron balustrade. Window
to left of front with bottom lights blocked and a Post Office stamp dispenser
inserted, adjacent to its right a post box. Forecourt to No 23 with rubble plinth,
slate flagstone capping, part of the light renewed in concrete, plain wrought iron
railings. Plank doorway to a basement to the right.
Interior: of shop and post office devoid of details of interest. Remainder of the
building not seen.

Listing NGR: SS3176024831

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26458456

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas