Description

SD 63 NE RIBCHESTER BLACKBURN ROAD

8/132
11.11.66 No.8

II

House, probably early C18th. Squared watershot sandstone with stone slate
roof. 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays. Windows have outer chamfer and inner
cyma moulding, with mullions and transoms. The ground-floor windows are
of 6 lights, with cross windows on the 1st floor. The door has a
shouldered architrave. Brick chimney at the right-hand end. The rear
wall has 2 2-light rebated and chamfered mullioned windows on the ground
floor and a double-chamfered cross window lighting the stair. Interior.
The ground floor has 2 doors with raised and fielded panels, and a C18th
moulded shouldered fireplace in the left-hand front room. The dog-leg
stair continues up to the attic, with 4 flights, square moulded newels and
turned balusters. The roof principals have curved feet and there is a
stepped 3-light chamfered mullioned window in the east attic wall, now
blocked by the adjoining house.

Listing NGR: SD6506035408

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 8 Blackburn Road at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26440474

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)