Description

SNAITH AND COWICK BUTT LANE
SE 6422
(west side)
12/47 No 2 (Mitton House)
GV II
House. Late C18 for Mitton family, with earlier origins to rear; late C19
roof. Yellow brick with Welsh slate roof. T-shaped on plan: 2-room central
entrance-hall east front with kitchen and stairs to rear. 2 storeys with
attic, 3 bays; symmetrical. Flight of 3 stone steps to C19 panelled door
and overlight with margin bars beneath scrolled consoles carrying moulded
pediment. Blocked basement window to right beneath segmental header arch.
Original tripartite sashes with glazing bars and sills beneath rubbed-brick
flat arches. Swept roof with overhanging eaves. End stacks. Boarded
segmental-arched attic opening to left gable. Stone-coped gable with shaped
kneeler to rear wing. Interior. Original C18 details include: open well
staircase with ramped handrail and column-on-vase balusters with square
knops; wooden chimney-piece to ground floor left with pilasters, panelled
frieze and dentilled cornice, flanked by half-domed alcoves with keyed
architraves and shelves above pairs of fielded-panelled doors; moulded dado
rail and dentilled chimney-piece to ground floor right with fluted and
foliate ornament in the frieze, flanked by square-headed alcoves; pair of
alcoves to first floor left with round-headed fielded-panel doors; fielded-
panel window shutters and reveals, and 6-fielded-panel doors in architraves
throughout; exposed beams and joists; barrel-vaulted cellars.

Listing NGR: SE6442322050

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26397350

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (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
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House