Rock House With Retaining Wall And Steps

MALPAS C.P. HIGH STREET SJ 44 NE (West Side) 2/67 Rock House, with retaining wall and steps GV II

House, late C17 with early C19 front, of brown Flemish bond brick with grey slate roof. Cellar, 2 storeys and attic; 3 windows. The lower storey is 2 metres above street level, and has an almost full-length slate-roofed canopy, hipped to right and butting against adjacent buildings to left, on 3 shaped wooden brackets. Door of 2 fielded panels above flush reeded panels has rectangular overlight; canted bay window right has 4-pane front sash and 2-pane side sashes, square bay window, left, has red brick corner piers, 3 2-pane sashes to front and 1 to each side. The upper storey has 3 flush 12-pane sashes under camber arches and with projecting stone cills. Deep boxed eaves and open pediment verges; projecting gable chimney, right. Interior: Cellar. Chamfered oak beam and altered inglenook with bevelled oakbressummer in left front room. Door to right front room has late Georgian case; rear room has 2 chamfered oak beams, one ogee-stopped. Good oak stair of late C17/early C18 type has massive square newels, shaped rail of oak swept at 1st floor and 2 stout turned balusters per step, all painted. Oak purlins. Broad-board doors with long hinges and latches of wrought iron.

Listing NGR: SJ4872847270