Description

GLOSSOP

SK0494 CHURCH STREET SOUTH, Old Glossop
921-1/11/74 (East side)
04/12/58 Nos.16 AND 18
(Formerly Listed as:
OLD CROSS, Old Glossop
Nos.16 AND 18
(Old Manor House))

GV II

2 houses. Early C17 with C19 and C20 alterations. Narrow
coursed millstone grit, ashlar dressings. Stone slate roofs
and 3 stone stacks, that to No.18 with diagonally set stack.
PLAN: No.16 T-plan originally with cross passage, altered to
baffle entry. No.18 L-plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey. Quoins. East gable front has single narrow
16-pane window with large ashlar lintel above narrow 3-light
C20 casement window with timber lintel. Set back to right 2
storey lean-to wing with C20 door in ashlar surround and above
single 2-light casement in chamfered surround.
North front largely blank with two 6-pane casements to left,
that to right within original door opening. Above single
casement in chamfered surround. Projecting crosswing to left
has single doorway to left with C20 door and above single
casement in chamfered surround. Right return has single
2-light chamfered mullion window and above smaller 2-light
flush mullion window.
West front has projecting crosswing to right with coped gable
and kneelers. Single 7-light chamfered mullion window, and
above single 5-light similar window. Left return has external
stack with doorway to left and 3-light chamfered mullion
window to first floor right. Set back to left single 3-light
chamfered mullion window to each floor.
South front has gable to right and projecting lean-to to left.
Off-centre doorway with C20 plank and studded doorway and
above 3-light casement, to left lean-to has 3-light casement
in chamfered ashlar surround. To right gable has C20
casements.
INTERIOR: No.16 has within roof space evidence of timber,
wattle and daub stack on the site of a former cross passage.
This consists of tie with mortices beneath to take smoke hood
or timber stack, which extended between purlins only. There is
also smoke blackened timbers and wall plaster. The extant
fireplace has massive cambered stone lintel. Beams remain
throughout. The first floor retains timber lintels to window
openings, and within the south wall are traces of previous
stone mullions to former 4-light window.
No.18 has chamfered beams to main rooms, some on stone
corbels. Replacement fireplace to principal room.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Derbyshire:
Harmondsworth: 1953-1986: 218).

Listing NGR: SK0421894813

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664062

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)