Description

SD 99 NE
15/101

MELBECKS
ISLES
Belle Isle, wall, gate-piers and railings

II

House and cottage under 1 roof, now house and outbuilding, with wall,
gate-piers and railings. Early C19. Coursed sandstone, stone slate
roof. 2 storeys. House: 3 first floor windows, ashlar surrounds to
openings. Central 4-panel door in classical doorcase with plinths and
simple entablature, name 'BELLE-ISLE' painted on frieze. Resting on the
cornice, an earlier keystone inscribed 'J7 07' G FM. Added C20 glazed
porch. C20 canted bay on left of door, other windows sashes. End
stacks. Cottage on right with 1 first floor window. On ground floor:
boarded door, fixed-light 20-pane window and low fire window with stone
surround. First floor: 4-pane sash window in ashlar surround. Shaped
kneeler to right. In front of small garden, rubble wall with ashlar
coping. Gate-piers to house: monolithic ashlar obelisks. Gate-piers to
cottage: shorter obelisks set on wall. Similar obelisks at intervals in
railings. Short cast-iron railings with finial tops to bars.

Listing NGR: SD9779697665

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26423778

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)