Description

BAINBRIDGE A 684 SD 99 SE (north side) Worton 9/54 Summer Tree House and attached outbuilding 25.3.69 GV II House and attached outbuilding. House dated 1729. For Michael Smith. House: coursed rubble; outbuilding: rubble; stone slate roofs. 2 storeys. House: 3 first-floor windows, rear out-shut. Quoins. Central 4-panel door in ashlar quoined surround with ogee moulding on the chamfer, lintel with triangular soffit and decorative motifs on spandrels, and inscription "M:S.1729" with decorative motifs. Above lintel, square plaque with scar where something has been removed. 3-light chamfered windows with architraves and flat-faced mullions, except over door where there is a single-light window. Corniced end stacks. Outbuilding to right: board doors on ground and first floors, with stone steps up to first floor. Left return of house: 2 single-light windows in architraves: that on ground floor with stone panel crudely inscribed "MICHAEL SMITH MECHANICK BUT HE THAT BUILT ALL THINGS IS GOD Heb.3"; that on first floor with keystone.

Listing NGR: SD9550790015

External Links

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