Spergarth Cottage And Winewall House

SD 93 NW 12/239

TRAWDEN LANE TOP Winewall No 37 (Winewall House) and No 39 (Spergarth Cottage)

25.2.70

GV II House and cottage. Mid C17 with cottage added later C17; altered. Coursed rubble sandstone, stone slate roof. T-shaped plan having crosswing on left; cottage against right end is of deeper plan. 2 storeys,1:3:1 windows to 1st floor. Winewall House (on left): crosswing has large quoins and an intact 3-light, cavetto-mullioned window to each floor. Main range to right has an inserted door with overlight on left of casement with glazing bars in C17 opening; bowed C20 casement on right. 1st floor: casement in C17 opening flanked by taller casements with glazing bars in square-faced surrounds. Ridge stack and end stack on right. No 37 (to right): stonework roughly courses through. Chamfered, quoined doorway on left of C20 casement in C17 opening. C20 casement in enlarged opening to 1st floor; lower ridge with end stack on right. Rear of Winewall House has enlarged mullioned windows of 4 and 3 lights; crosswing lit by 3-light mullioned window on each floor. Left return is altered but has 3 two-light mullioned windows.

Interior: Bressummer beam with mortice for heck post in right end of Winewall House; late C17 fireplace in rear-right corner of crosswing.

Sarah Pearson, Rural Houses of the Lancashire Pennines 1560-1760, RCHM, 1985, p168-9.

Listing NGR: SD9119039989