Description

MIDDLETON TYAS MAIN STREET
NZ 2205-2305 (south side)

9/73 Middleton House and
cottage adjoining to west
4.2.69 (the latter formerly
listed as House adjoining
Fernlea)

GV II

House and cottage, now one. Middleton House mid C18, Cottage late C17 with
later alterations. Rubble, pantile roofs, Middleton House rendered and with
stone slates at eaves. 2 storeys, 3:2 bays. Middleton House, on left:
openings have ashlar surrounds. Central 6-panel door below overlight with
decorative glazing bars. On ground floor, sash windows with glazing bars;
on first floor smaller unequally-hung 9-pane sash windows. Shaped kneelers,
ashlar coping. Brick end stacks. Cottage, to right: openings have deep
stone lintels. Central part-glazed door. 4-pane sash windows, smaller on
first floor. Brick stacks to right of first bay and at end right, the
latter external. Interior: Middleton House has spit irons in ceilings of
front and rear ground-floor rooms to right of door; original plan of cottage
survives, with large fireplaces in both ground-floor rooms, that to left
with cast-iron kitchen range, that to right with reckon. In left room, C17
stencilled wall painting on plaster. The colour-wash on the cottage is a
traditional yellow ochre-coloured earth dye, a limestone derivative obtained
locally and mixed with tallow and lime as a waterproofing agent for rubble
walls.

Listing NGR: NZ2255205670

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26424534

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Recommended Books

• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)