Description

CROSBY

SJ3198SW MURAT STREET
778-1/6/110 (North East side)
Nos.52 AND 54
Former coach house to No.13 Beach
Lawn

GV II

Coach house, now workshops. Later C19; altered. Red and yellow
brick in English bond with some blue brick courses, hipped
slate roof with red ridge tiles and metal terminal finials.
Gothic style. Rectangular plan parallel to street, with
carriage entry through the centre.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus a square 1-stage tower over the
carriage entry, 3:1:3 windows, with brick corbel-tables. The
centre has a large segmental-headed archway with red sandstone
springing blocks and a moulded brick head with a foliated
terracotta keystone; a canted stone oriel rising into the
tower, which has a brick corbel table and a steep pyramidal
roof with a steep canopied dormer to the front. The 3-window
range to the left has a tall segmental-headed doorway in the
centre, a tall half-dormer above this with a corbelled head
and half-hipped roof with barge-boarding and an apex finial;
and 2 windows on each floor, that to the left at ground floor
altered, that to the right segmental-headed, and those above
shouldered with stone lintels. The range to the right has a
tall segmental-headed doorway at the right-hand end, and
windows at 1st floor like those to the left except that to the
left which has been replaced with an oblong C20 window.
Rear and interior not inspected, but appears to be front range
of courtyard block, the other ranges of which appear to have
been more altered.

Listing NGR: SJ3142298396

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548710

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)