Heald House

SD 52SE LEYLAND HEALD HOUSE ROAD

9/35 Heald House - - II

House, dated 1706, altered in C19. Brick on stone plinth, rendered except on rear wall, roof of blue tiles. Rectangular double pile plan, 2 storeys and attic, 3 symmetrical bays. Plinth; bands to let and 2nd floors. Door with pilastered stone jambs and semicircular fanlight plain glazed; arched wooden porch (c.1920); datestone over door with floral decoration and lettering in relief: S A M 1706

Two windows on ground floor, 3 on 1st floor, all sashed with C19 surrounds, eared and minimally-pedimented; 3 gabled attic dormers with sashed windows. C19 canted bay on left return wall. Interior: dog-leg staircase with half-landings, of late C17 type: oblong columnar newels with pendents, broad string, turned balusters and broad moulded handrail (this is in rear extension, the outer walls of which are C19); section of carved and panelled wainscot in hall passage, said to have been taken from Nelson's "Foudroyant", but C17 in style; doors with fielded panels.

Listing NGR: SD5522621508