Listing Text

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SD 73 NW
2/72

WHALLEY
THE SANDS
Nos. 1-4 Abbeycroft

(Formerly listed as Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Abbeycroft)

13-2-1967

GV
II
Row of 4 houses, probably originally one, mid C17, altered late C19.
Sandstone rubble with roof of slate and stone slate. 2 storeys, with attic
and with drip course. Windows C19, chamfered with central mullion. Doors
have chamfered stone surrounds. Nos.3 and 4, at the left, is of 5 bays and has
stone attic gabled dormers over the 3rd and 5th bays, with one-light
chamfered windows. Doors in 3rd and 4th bays. No.2 is of one bay and has a
door at the left and has 2 attic dormers. No.1 has a window to the left of
and one above the door, and an attic dormer. Chimneys on left-hand gable
and between houses. Inside, the door of No.2 opens against a firehood
baffle. The heck post and bressumer are moulded and stopped. Above the
bressumer is a ceiling beam, 2 studs remaining of the plastered infill
which must have joined them. Nos.3 and 4, not accessible at time of survey, but
said to have bressumer for a firehood which backed onto that in No.2, and
an outshut which contains a dog-leg stair with turned balusters and
moulded handrail. Nos.2 and 3 have ceiling beams with quarter-round
mouldings. Interior of No.1 said to contain no C17 features. RCHM report
by Sarah Pearson dated August 1979.

Listing NGR: SD7292836141