Description

MELBOURN MEADOW WAY TL 3844 24/188 No. 2 II

House. c.1740. Mainly red brick with burnt brick details. Flemish bond. Steeply pitched tiled roof with C19 grey brick, rebuilt ridge stack and end stack at right angles to the ridge. Single range lobby entry plan with gable end to road. Two storeys and attic with plat band of red and burnt brickwork between the storeys. Segmental arches and similar patterned brickwork to five windows at first floor, including four original cross-frame casements with later glazing and a C19 hung sash of twelve panes with lowered sill. Similar arches to ground floor windows including a larger cross-frame casement and two hung sashes in slightly enlarged openings. House doorway in original location opposite the stack but with C19 four panelled door and flat hood on cut brackets. Tradesmens door to left hand probably on site of a window openiny and an original door has been blocked. End to road has an original iron frame casement in the attic and segmental arches to two window openings, one at ground floor now blocked. Rear elevation with two small original openings and one later hung sash. Evidence of an addition exists in the rear wall and on the O.S. Map of 1885. Inside: Inglenook hearth to centre bay with pot hooks and a small hearth abutting to the parlour at the front. An C18 door has been reset to a later staircase. At first floor a corridor was inserted and some doors have been reset. The roof rafters are original, and there is a garret in the attic.

Source: Private Photographic Collection

Listing NGR: TL3842444898

External Links

• Wikidata Q26616122

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)