Description

MELBECKS KEARTON
SD 99 NE
15/102 Brockma Gill east
- II
Cottage, at one time divided into 2. Dated 1718. Rubble with stone
slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 first floor windows and third blocked. Crude
quoins. Central doorway has board door in stone surround of interrupted
jambs, with splayed bases and flat rebate around outside surface of
opening, and in a panel on the lintel the inscription '1718 MC SC WR IR'
with leaf-stop motif. To its right is a blocked doorway with ashlar
sandstone surround. Windows to left of door on each floor are square
openings with C20 casements, beyond a blocked fire window. Windows to
right of door have fragments of flat-mullioned 2-light surrounds. Above
doorway, blocked 3-light mullioned window with altered lintel.
Interior: 2 good fireplaces: to left with corbelled supports to lintel,
to right with an ogee sooker stone, the reckon nearby. A very tight
staircase at back left. Derelict at time of re-survey. Cottage to the
left not of special interest.

Listing NGR: SD9988099035

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26474727

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