Description

NEWBURGH

SD4810 CULVERT LANE 663-1/6/117 (West side) Giant's Hall

GV II

Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Late C18 or very early C19; altered. Coursed squared sandstone (rear and right-hand end of pebble-dashed brick), hipped slate roof. Rectangular double-depth plan. Two storeys and 3 windows, a symmetrical but disproportionately long facade, with rusticated quoins and moulded gutter cornice. The ground floor has glazed and panelled double doors, now protected by a C20 gabled porch. Both floors have 16-pane sashed windows with wedge lintels which have raised pseudo voussoirs and keystones. The 2-window left return wall has similar fenestration; the right-hand return wall has an inserted doorway. The rear wall has (inter alia) a full-height semi-elliptical blank arch in the centre (as if for a former waggon entrance) containing an ex situ datestone lettered: R P I R I 1679 INTERIOR: dog-legged open-string staircase with scrolled brackets and stick balusters.

Listing NGR: SD4819410824

External Links

• Wikidata Q26578870

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)