Description

MELBECKS GUNNERSIDE
SD 99 NE
15/97 Croft Cottage, Croft
House, Croft View and
gate-piers
- II
Cottage, house and cottage under 1 roof, last now Post Office and store,
and gate-piers. 1720. Rendered rubble, stone slate roof. 2 storeys
with outshut at back, now street frontage. Original front of
symmetrical composition 1:5:1. Croft House: central doorway with
bolection moulded architrave, plain fanlight above part-boarded, part-
glazed door. First 4 bays have sash windows in hollow-moulded
architraves: bay 5 has blocked fire windows on both floors, of same
height as others but narrower, and with imitation sash frames painted
on. Croft Cottage to left: 1 bay of windows as above and 6-panel door
in ashlar surround. Croft View to right: 1 bay of windows as above and
4-panel door in ashlar surround with name lettered on lintel. Copings
overall, stacks with classical cornices between bays 1 and 2, 3 and 4
and double stack between bays 6 and 7. In left return gable, oculus
with ashlar keyed surround. Gate-piers just outside doorway of Croft
House of rusticated ashlar with cornices and capping, set within low
rubble wall.

Listing NGR: SD9516098211

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26423777

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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