Description

SEATON VALLEY (part) FRONT STREET (south side)
NZ 37 SW
Backworth.
4/24 The Old Cottage and
stables and loft adjoining,
occupied by G. Thomas
G.V.
II
2 houses, now stores and stable. Late C18. Roughly coursed rubble sandstone with
quoins to upper two-thirds; Welsh slate roofs with brick chimneys. House: 2
storeys, 4 bays. Paired boarded central doors, that at right blocked; blocked
rectangular overlight to that at left, under stone lintels. Projecting stone
sills and wide stone lintels to late C19 sashes in wide boxes. Wrought iron
gutter brackets with one section of wooden gutter; returns have large irregular
blocks forming low gable parapets. 2 truncated end brick chimneys. Stables at
right: one storey, 3 bays: boarded door at right under wooden lintel; 2 ventilation
slits; one square brick chimney on ridge near right end; stable and loft at right:
gable to street contains high square window; right return has boarded door and
overlight and wide window with glazing bars in wooden section inserted in cart
entrance; truncated brick chimney.

Listing NGR: NZ3010672249

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26479617

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