Description

TA 0621-0721 BARROW UPON HUMBER HIGH STREET (west side)

14/8 Papist Hall (formerly listed as Row 6.11.67 of 3 cottages W of Glenroyd)

GV II

House. Late C17 with late C18 - C19 wing to rear and outshut to right, alterations to openings and conversion to 3 houses. Brick in English bond, colourwashed. Pantile roof. Artisan Mannerist style. Plan: 3 rooms, with original central entrance (now blocked) into large central room and small stairhall to right besides stack. Later backstairs inserted in passage to rear of central room, and later doors inserted to room on left, central room and main stairhall to right. 2 storeys with attic, 7 bays, with single storey and attic, single-bay outshut to right. Rendered plinth. Pilaster strips to angles. Stone steps to three doors beneath brick flat arches and raised brick surrounds to upper halves: 6-panel door to left in C19 opening with blocked original window opening in second bay to left; 6-panel door to right of centre in C19 opening; 6-fielded-panel door (top 2 panels glazed) to fifth bay to right in former window opening. Five 16-pane ground floor sashes in flush wooden architraves and raised brick surrounds with flat arches beneath 2-course brick bands. Central window occupies original entrance in similar surround with flat arch, raised band and pilaster surviving to left. Surrounds to openings linked at the top by 2-course brick band. Outshut has similar 16-pane ground floor sash under segmental arch. First floor has 4 similar recessed sashes and 3 smaller blocked openings to bays 2, 5 and 7 (probably representing original window size) in similar surrounds; those to bays 2, 5 and 6 have traces of stucco arches and small weathered moulded keystones. Brick surrounds and pilaster strips linked by raised eaves band. Steeply-pitched roof. C19 raking dormer with 4-pane sliding sash and boarded cheeks. Raised brick-coped gables with single-course raking bands and wide end stacks with elaborately moulded brick cornice bearing shield motifs; adjoining later end stacks and axial stack. Left return has pilaster strip to right angle, 2-course second floor brick band and 2 small attic casements with projecting 2-course brick hoods. Rear right has window with leaded panes. Interior: dog-leg main staircase with closed string, drop-on-vase balusters, similarly-profiled splat balusters to attic, and pendant drop to newel; Chinese Chippendale fret balustrade to back stairs landing; wide central fireplace with timber bressumer; re-used sections of painted C17 panelling to ground floor left. An unusual and distinguished early brick building, empty and in decay at time of re-survey.

Listing NGR: TA0709721223

External Links

• Wikidata Q26630330

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)