Cort House is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Cort House
- WRENN ID
- lost-lead-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1967
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ARKHOLME-WITH-CAWOOD MAIN STREET (north side) SD 57 SE
4/20 Cort House 4-10-1967 GV II
House, 1700, altered. Slobbered rubble with slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Windows modern with plain stone surrounds. Left-hand ground-floor window of 3 lights with flat-faced mullions. Door, in central bay, has cyma-moulded surround with lintel inscribed: 'RCI [Richard and Jane Cort] 1700'. Above, a sandstone flag forms a hood. The stonework shows traces of a drip course which has been removed and of blocked mullioned windows. Gable chimneys. Inside,the left-hand room has a firehood bressumer with a blocked mortise for a heck post. In the gable wall is a spice cupboard with panelled door. The present fireplace is C18th and shouldered, with a moulded cornice mantel and fielded panels on the lintel. In the loft two elaborately shaped and moulded king-post trusses of re-used cruck timber are visible. One rises from a tie beam and has raking queen struts; the other rises from a collar. Both have empty mortises for braces to the ridge.
Listing NGR: SD5869071903
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