Description

TA 0621-0721 BARROW UPON HUMBER NORTH STREET (east side)

14/12 Scrivener's Cottage

- II

Farmhouse and adjoining barn. Datestone inscribed THOMAS. Brick with SCRIVENER 1797 pantile roof. Plan: house at right end, 2 rooms deep, with entrance hall to left; 3-bay barn to left. 2 storeys, 5 bays. Plain door and overlight under painted segmental header arch with painted datestone above. 16-pane flush sash to right with segmental header arch and stucco cill. Unequal 9- pane first floor sash, with blind window panel over entrance, both with segmental header arches and stucco cills. Section to left has 3 vertical slit vents to each floor, those to ground floor blocked. Stepped eaves. Brick coped and tumbled gables. End stack to right. Left return has 3 blocked slit vents to ground floor and a central first floor hatch with segmental brick arch and cill. Rear: large elliptical brick-keyed waggon arch with original board doors and wrought-iron strap hinges; 4-pane and 12- pane sliding sashes to house end. An unusual example of a combined farmhouse and barn, notable for its small size and unaltered condition.

Listing NGR: TA0717821596

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)