Description

MELBECKS GUNNERSIDE SD 99 NE 15/97 Croft Cottage, Croft House, Croft View and gate-piers - II Cottage, house and cottage under 1 roof, last now Post Office and store, and gate-piers. 1720. Rendered rubble, stone slate roof. 2 storeys with outshut at back, now street frontage. Original front of symmetrical composition 1:5:1. Croft House: central doorway with bolection moulded architrave, plain fanlight above part-boarded, part- glazed door. First 4 bays have sash windows in hollow-moulded architraves: bay 5 has blocked fire windows on both floors, of same height as others but narrower, and with imitation sash frames painted on. Croft Cottage to left: 1 bay of windows as above and 6-panel door in ashlar surround. Croft View to right: 1 bay of windows as above and 4-panel door in ashlar surround with name lettered on lintel. Copings overall, stacks with classical cornices between bays 1 and 2, 3 and 4 and double stack between bays 6 and 7. In left return gable, oculus with ashlar keyed surround. Gate-piers just outside doorway of Croft House of rusticated ashlar with cornices and capping, set within low rubble wall.

Listing NGR: SD9516098211

External Links

• Wikidata Q26423777

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Recommended Books

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)