Description

SJ 56 SE TARPORLEY C.P. ROAD STREET

1/75 Salters Well House

GV II

House. Dated 1783 to down-pipe bracket. Flemish bond brick with
stone dressings and slate roof. Three storeys. Entrance front: 3
bays symmetrically disposed. Rendered plinth and fluted modillion
cornice to top of wall. Central ground floor doorway above flight of
6 steps with moulded treads. Fluted pilasters to either side with
cables to the lower bodies. Open pediment above containing fanlight.
Door of 6 raised and fielded panels with fist and laurel-wreath
knocker. To either side are tripartite windows with 4-pane central
sash windows and lateral lights of 1 x 2 panes. Similar lateral
windows to first and (of less height) to second floors all with wedge
lintels cut in simulation of chamfered rustication with central fluted
keystones. Arched central windows to first and second floors also
with simulated chamfering to the arched lintels and ogee mouldings to
the keystones. Right hand gable end: Lead down-pipe with dated
bracket and moulded rainwater head to far left bearing initials S B.
To the right of this are tripartite French windows at ground floor
level with a sash window to the first floor of 4 x 4 panes and another
to the second floor of 3 x 2 panes. The attic has a horizontally
sliding sash window of 2 lights. All these windows have stone sills
and lintels similar to those on the entrance front. To the rear: two-
storey late C19 extension extending across whole width of rear. Above
are two gabled wings each with a horizontally sliding sash window and
cambered heads.
Interior: Late C18 plan of 4 rooms to each floor with a central
corridor with oak staircase of two straight flights with half-landings
and ramped handrails with wreathed curtail, open string with moulded
brackets and stick balusters. The back stairs have square newels and
turned balusters to the lower flights. Drawing room: pine panelling
below moulded dado. Dining room: panelled marble fireplace.

Listing NGR: SJ5516863087

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26431618

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)