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HALTWHISTLE MAIN STREET
NY 7064
(South side)
20/15 Premises of
David B. Ivison
(Chartered Accountant)
II

Converted bastle house now business premises. Late C16-early C17, altered
1740 (dated door lintel) and late C19. Rubble (rendered on front), Welsh
slate roof and stone chimney stack. 2-storey, 2-window street front. Low
rendered plinth. Off-centre, partly-glazed 4-panel door in chamfered stone
surround. Door lintel has sunk shaped panel with raised letters: WBE 1740.
Small boarded window to right (possibly a fire window). Early C19 4-pane
shop window to left has plain pilaster surround, projecting sill and fascia
with bracketed hood. 2 replaced casements above in deep reveals. Roof has
coped left gable and left end stack with water table and top ledge. Blocked
gable-end doorway, with massive roughly-shaped alternating jambs and lintel,
through archway on left return. Tall boulder plinth and scattered openings
on rear. Interior: fragment of partly-rebuilt wood winder stair against
rear wall; first-floor room has wany ceiling beams (probably re-used rafters
from the original roof).

Listing NGR: NY7078464094