Description

COBERLEY - SO 91 SE

7/57 Cockleford Mill with attached stable blocks

II

Former mill house. C17, gentrified mid C18. Small ashlar blocks; slate roof; ashlar stack. Rectangular main body with a stairs projection to the rear, further extension at right angles rear right; stable with loft over at the right gable end of the main body. House: 2 storeys and attic; 6-windowed almost symmetrical front lit by 16-pane sashes with wide glazing bars within dressed stone architraves with keystones; 8-pane sashes with similar surrounds far right; a continuous dripmould over the ground floor windows is stepped up over a deep stone lintel over the C18 five- panelled door which retains its original knocker and handle. Two blocked windows to the ground and first floors of the left gable end; 3-light C19 stone-mullioned casement inserted within a blocked doorway. Single-light windows with flat-chamfered surrounds to the stairs projection at the rear. Extension at right angles at rear: 2-light stone-mullioned casement to the ground floor; 12-pane sash with a dressed stone architrave and keystone to the upper floor. Stable block: C18 five-panelled door with the two upper panels glazed far left, set within a C20 reconstituted stone surround; double garage doors then a stable door. Shuttered pitching window over the garage door, fixed 3-light window to the right. Axial stack. Interior: beams with deep flat chamfers and moulded stops; fine C18 shell-headed alcove flanked by fluted pilasters, in the front left-hand room set within the blocking of the former gable end window; small C18 dressed stone fireplace with lugged panel above and fielded dado in an upstairs room. C18 six-panelled doors.

Listing NGR: SO9742513962

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)