Description

MELBOURN MEADOW WAY
TL 3844
24/188
No. 2
II

House. c.1740. Mainly red brick with burnt brick details. Flemish bond.
Steeply pitched tiled roof with C19 grey brick, rebuilt ridge stack and end
stack at right angles to the ridge. Single range lobby entry plan with gable
end to road. Two storeys and attic with plat band of red and burnt brickwork
between the storeys. Segmental arches and similar patterned brickwork to
five windows at first floor, including four original cross-frame casements
with later glazing and a C19 hung sash of twelve panes with lowered sill.
Similar arches to ground floor windows including a larger cross-frame
casement and two hung sashes in slightly enlarged openings. House doorway in
original location opposite the stack but with C19 four panelled door and flat
hood on cut brackets. Tradesmens door to left hand probably on site of a
window openiny and an original door has been blocked. End to road has an
original iron frame casement in the attic and segmental arches to two window
openings, one at ground floor now blocked. Rear elevation with two small
original openings and one later hung sash. Evidence of an addition exists in
the rear wall and on the O.S. Map of 1885. Inside: Inglenook hearth to
centre bay with pot hooks and a small hearth abutting to the parlour at the
front. An C18 door has been reset to a later staircase. At first floor a
corridor was inserted and some doors have been reset. The roof rafters are
original, and there is a garret in the attic.

Source: Private Photographic Collection

Listing NGR: TL3842444898

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26616122

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