Description

MALTON

SE780715 THE MOUNT 801-1/8/135 (West side) Nos.27 AND 27A

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House, now two flats. c1860. Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar quoins and dressings, on roll-moulded plinth. Cross-gabled roof of contrasting bands of orange-red and blue-black fishscale tiles; valanced eaves, and pierced and scalloped bargeboards to crossgables. Cruciform ridge stacks to rear wings. 1 storey and attic; 2-bay front: with 2 storey and attic cross-gabled bay to right. Shallow projecting gabled porch in centre bay, with roll-moulded finial; pointed double-chamfered doorway beneath hoodmould on foliate corbel stops, and pointed door with elaborate wrought iron hinges. To left, 2 single-light windows; to right, 5-light square bay window beneath boldly carved foliate frieze and moulded cornice. Gabled attic window to left is half-dormer with single-light window recessed beneath pointed arch of voussoirs, and roll-moulded sillband with foliate stops. In cross-gabled bay to right, first-floor window is of 2 lights beneath pointed relieving arch, with sunk trefoil moulding. In gable apex, attic window is pointed with roll-moulded sillband and foliate stops. Left return: 1 storey and attic; 2-bay front: with 2-storey cross-gabled bay to right. Single-light window to ground floor left bay; 2-light window in centre; to right, 4-light canted bay with frieze and cornice as on main front bay window. Attic window to left is gabled half-dormer of 2 lights. Right bay has 2-light first floor window beneath pointed relieving arch, with sunk trefoil moulding. All windows, except where specified otherwise, are trefoil-headed. All openings and window mullions are hollow-chamfered.

Listing NGR: SE7835571989

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