Description

HELSBY C.P. CHESTER ROAD
SJ 47 NE
(North Side)
1/115 No. 265.
II
Cottage, late C17; sandstone and brick, painted; corrugated iron over
thatch. 1 storey plus attic in roof. 2 windows. Replaced door; iron
lattice casements (mid C19), 1 to each side of door and 2 in dormers.
Right gable-end of stone has plinth and 2 upper windows: 1 of 2 lights
with flush chamfered mullion (1 light blocked), the other of 1 light in
a square chamfered opening, containing a horizontal sliding sash).
Flush brick chimney on each gable.
Interior. 2 rooms plus later outshut at back. Broad-board oak doors;
oak cupboards of C17 type at each side of chimney-breast in right
room; winder stair behind rear cupboard (there had been 2 stairs, that
in left room removed); chamfered oak beams; sawn oak joists;
oak-framed partition wall visible in bedrooms; oak truss indicates a
formerly very steep roof-pitch.

Listing NGR: SJ4905475781

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552688

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