Mill Bridge Cottage, Gisburne Park

SD 84 NW GISBURN

SD 821 495

4/54 Mill Bridge Cottage, Gisburne Park 16-11-1954 (formerly listed as Gisburn Mill)

GV II

Lodge, early-to-mid C18th with C19th additions and possible earlier remains. Pebbledashed rubble with sandstone dressings and slate roof. 2 storeys. Comprises a 3-bay section with a cross-wing at its right, and a later C19th addition set back further right. Main 3-bay section has windows with plain stone surrounds and false keystones, a blank 1st floor, and a bracketed cornice with blocking course. The central doorway has long-and-short jambs and progressively projecting voussoirs and keystone breaking through a cornice. The cross-wing has mullioned windows with inner hollow chamfer, outer chamfer, and hoods: of 2 lights on the ground floor and 3 on the 1st floor. The one-light chamfered attic window has a pointed head and hood The door, at the left, has a moulded surround with Tudor-arched head. The gable has 3 finials of square plan. The addition at the right has a 3-light mullioned window on each floor. Chimney in line with door of left-hand section, and on gable of extension. This right-hand (south-west) gable wall has 2 one-light windows with Tudor-arched heads and hoods on the ground floor, and a similar window on the 1st floor. Set into the wall to its left is a tablet carved with 8 shields of arms; probably re-set. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD8220149572