Description

SO 9724 PRESTBURY MILL STREET
(north side)

18/92 The Cottage

4.7.60

- II

Detached house. Mid C17, extended and altered late C18-early C19.
Coursed squared and dressed limestone. Late C18-early C19 range at
rear painted brick. Artificial stone slate roof with ashlar
stacks, now reduced in height. 'T'-shaped plan to main body with
1½ storey lean-to rear right and late C18-early C19 kitchen range
at right angles rear left. Two storeys and attic lit by four gabled
2-light roof dormers with leaded panes. Symmetrical, 5-windowed
facade with 2-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned casements with
stopped hoods to first floor. Four 2-light steel casements with
leaded panes to ground floor. Projecting central C19 porch with
four-panelled front door with upper panels glazed within a flat-
chamfered surround with a flattened ogee curved head. Hollow-
chamfered stone-mullioned casements to stairs projection. Flat
coping at gable ends of main body. Gable-end stacks.
Interior; open fireplace with bressumer beam, small single-light
to with flat-chamfered stone surround to right of the fireplace.
Moulded Tudor-arched stone fireplace. Fine two-flight C17 open-
well staircase with barley-twist balusters within stairs
projection.

Listing NGR: SO9717924020

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26446468

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)