Description

SOPWELL LANE
1. (South Side)
1582
No 2

TL 1406 NE 14/111

II*

2.
Incorporated with No 37 Holywell Hill.
Formerly Common Lodging House. C16 long, timber framed building under
high pitched, tiled roof. Stout, close studding on overhanging 1st floor
with visible beam ends. Plaster filling. 2 storeys, 8 windows. Brick
ground floor and brick plinth. The 3 left bays are plastered over on
1st floor and have later sash windows with glazing bars in flush, box
frames, and a C19 shop front on ground floor. Close studding visible
in right 4 bays of ground floor. Ground floor windows are later sashes
with glazing bins except for one wood-mullioned casement at right.
2 Cl9 doors and one double carriage door, all in Gothic style, inserted
on ground floor. The 5 bays at right on 1st floor have leaded, 2-light
casement windows, one possibly original. Inside, heavy exposed timbers
including some chamfered and moulded beams of chestnut; and a stone
fireplace with Tudor arch.

Listing NGR: TL1466706887

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17555448

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)