Description

PARISH OF ECKINGTON CHURCH STREET
SK 42/4379
11/70
No 28 Church Street
II
House, formerly barn. Early C16 or earlier with C17 alterations
and additions and converted in 1975. Coursed rubble coal
measures sandstone with quoins, coped gables and moulded
kneelers, and an interlocking pantile roof. West elevation.
Single storey and attics, four bays, with wide central opening
now a garage door with a doorway and window opening to the
south, beneath plain stone lintels. Four C20 gabled dormers to
roof, the two central ones hipped. The interior contains two
massive full height cruck trusses, which rise from padstones,
within the walls. The trusses with yokes and collar beams have
lost their tie beams, and support a ridge purlin and single
purlins trenches into the backs of the principals. Substantial
curved windbraces are dovetail lap-jointed onto the cruck
blades.

Listing NGR: SK4331079772

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26380178

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)