8, Blackburn Road

SD 63 NE RIBCHESTER BLACKBURN ROAD

8/132 11.11.66 No.8

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House, probably early C18th. Squared watershot sandstone with stone slate roof. 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays. Windows have outer chamfer and inner cyma moulding, with mullions and transoms. The ground-floor windows are of 6 lights, with cross windows on the 1st floor. The door has a shouldered architrave. Brick chimney at the right-hand end. The rear wall has 2 2-light rebated and chamfered mullioned windows on the ground floor and a double-chamfered cross window lighting the stair. Interior. The ground floor has 2 doors with raised and fielded panels, and a C18th moulded shouldered fireplace in the left-hand front room. The dog-leg stair continues up to the attic, with 4 flights, square moulded newels and turned balusters. The roof principals have curved feet and there is a stepped 3-light chamfered mullioned window in the east attic wall, now blocked by the adjoining house.

Listing NGR: SD6506035408