Description

ORCHARD STREET
1.
5170
Mickleover
No 5
(Old Hall)
(Formerly listed in the
Rural District of Repton)
SK 33 SW 11/211 2.9.52.
II*

2.
Dated 1649. Square-panelled timber framing with red brick nogging; 2 storeys and
attic; 3 light C19 stone mullioned windows with cast iron lattice lights; stone
plinth. Front with central 2 storey porch, the upper floor oversailing; splat
balusters to open sides of porch; bressummer inscribed "NISI DEUS FRUSTRA 1684"
(An adaptation of the opening lines of the psalm 'Unless the Lord build the house
they labour in vain who build it'). No windows to left of porch one window each
floor to right. Tile roof. Other elevations in character. An interesting house.
(The house was at one time called The Cedars and is said to have been built by
a Captain in Cromwell's army).

Listing NGR: SK3052834024

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553526

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets