Description

WINGERWORTH
SK36NE LONGEDGE LANE
1264-0/6/146 (North side)
Nos.238 AND 240

II

A pair of semi-detached houses. Mid to late C19. Regularly
coursed Coal Measures Sandstone with channelled ashlar
dressings, quoins, oversailing eaves and verges, tall end
wall, stacks with moulded caps, together with one central
front wall stack at the junction of the 2 houses. Decorative
plain tile roof, with 3 plain courses followed by a 2-course
band of pointed tiles. Crested clay ridge tiles. A pair of
houses in the Vernacular Revival style, though not Derbyshire
vernacular, each of 2 bays. Each has an advanced outer gable,
and a gabled inner bay, together with a hipped single-storey
porch on the angle of the 2 bays. Outer gable with a central
3-light mullioned and transomed window below a first floor
2-light window of matching type, both windows within quoined
jambs and beneath segmental relieving arches above the window
heads. Metal casement frames with margin leaded lights. In the
gable apex a lancet ventilation opening or breather. Inner
gabled bay with identical arrangement of windows, but with a
small plaque bearing a heraldic device to the gable apex. Each
porch has a doorway to the front, beneath a 4-centred arched
lintel. Planked doors with elaborate strap hinges.

Listing NGR: SK3736867363

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26410280

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair