Description

SK 1575 PARISH OF TIDESWELL BANK SQUARE

7/11 (South East Side)
Markeygate House

GV II

House. C17 with possibly earlier core and with much subsequent remodelling. Rendered
rubble limestone with gritstone dressings, quoins, coped gables with moulded kneelers,
intermediate and end ridge stacks of stone. Welsh slates and stone slates. 'L'-plan.
Two storeys, three bays, formerly with mullioned windows throughout, but now with
some C20 glazing. Gable to south west end with 2- and 3-light flush mullioned
windows and sash frames without glazing bars. Openings to north east end have
plain surrounds and C20 glazing. Central doorway with C17 surround and planked
and studded door within C18 flat roofed porch, ashlar, and having a moulded
doorcase. South west side wall has restored 2-light chamfer mullioned window.
Interior: a single upper cruck truss survives in the centre of the house. Moulded
spine beams to ground floor, a good C18 hearth, and two plainer hearths side by side.
Roughly run moulded band to wall plaster of some first floor rooms. Some C17 square
and plank and muntin panelling.

Listing NGR: SK1521575682

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26576492

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)