Description

SK39NE
4/99

WENTWORTH
MAIN STREET
(north side)
Nos 60 and 62

GV
II

Houses. Core probably C16; encased C17 and C18; C19 and C20 alterations
and additions. Timber-framed; rubble sandstone walling, partly rendered;
stone slate roof. Irregular T-shaped plan incorporating 2-bay hall block
and 2-bay cross-wing. No 60 occupies cross-wing and adjacent bay of hall
block, No 62 occupies original end bay and an added bay. 2 storeys.
Roadside front (formed by side wall of cross-wing): quoins and irregular
rubble to ground floor, thinly-coursed stone above. 2 windows to each
floor: all renewed casements with glazing bars, lintels tooled as voussoirs.
Projecting brick end stack to right, recently rebuilt; another end stack
to front left roof slope. Small, single-storey, separately-roofed addition
to front left has 16-pane sash. Right return: exposed wallpost to right
corner of gable. C20 porch in angle with hall block; casement to each
floor of adjacent bay. No 62, to right, now rendered: C20 door flanked
by casements with glazing bars to each floor, shutters. Lower ridge with
end stacks. Single-storey addition to right. Left return: C20 porch to
right in angle with roadside addition. Adjacent bay of hall block has
shallow aisle projection with wall post exposed in return wall. Lean-to
addition to rear of No 62; to its right the infilled oak frame of a 3-light
mullioned window preserved within walling; head of a stud or wall-post
exposed above.

Interior: central posts and truss of cross-wing partially exposed; 1st-floor
beams resting on transverse mid-rail. Rest of framework largely obscured.
Adjoining bay occupied by No 62 has spine beam bearing traces of C16 or
C17 painting. A curved downbrace in original end wall of hall block at
1st-floor level, now plastered over, indicates an early constructional date.
Roof structure of No 62 reconstructed at shallower pitch.

Listing NGR: SK3843998340

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26425718

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