Description

SEDBERGH

SD6592SE MAIN STREET, Sedbergh Town
162-1/26/428 (South side (off))
11/08/78 Weavers Yard, Nos.2 and 3

GV II

Pair of weavers' cottages, now integrated as dwelling and
office. Probably c1800; recently altered and renovated. Mixed
random rubble with quoins, stone slate roof. Rectangular
2-unit plan on west side of yard.
EXTERIOR: 3 low storeys, 4 windows; doorway in centre of 1st
floor (formerly a pair of doorways, but that on the left now
altered as a window) approached by a large flight of 10 steps
rising along the front wall from the right and terminating on
an extended deck. The ground floor or basement has a doorway
and window left of the steps, and a shallow window to the
right of the top steps, the 1st floor has 2 windows each side
of the doorway (that to the left formerly the 2nd doorway),
and all these openings have sandstone lintels; the 2nd floor
has smaller windows over the 1st and 3rd at 1st floor, and a
blocked former window over the 2nd. All the windows have
altered joinery. Gable chimney to the left. Left gable wall
has a low single-storey outbuilding attached at ground floor
(formerly privies), through-stones on 2 levels above, and 2
small windows to each upper floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with Nos 5 and 7 facing
from the opposite side of the yard (qv).

Listing NGR: SD6578292111

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664026

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)