Nos 1 And 2 The Street

CLAUGHTON FLEET STREET SD 54 SW 8/75 Nos.l & 2 The Street 17-4-1967 GV II*

Two houses, formerly one, 1689. Sandstone rubble with slate roof. 3 storeys, 3 bays, with a drip course. Windows rebated and chamfered with mullions, except for the left-hand one on the 1st floor and those to the 2nd floor, which are chamfered. Those on the ground and 1st floors have hoods. The ground-floor windows are of 4 and 5 lights, with a 2-light fire window at the left. Those on the 1st floor are of 3, 3, and 4 lights. Those to the 2nd floor are of 2, 3, and 2 lights. The door, in the middle bay, has a moulded surround with shaped lintel inscribed: '1689 A WM R'. Gable chimneys. To the left and right are lower additions. The left-hand one has a 2-light rebated and chamfered mullioned window in its front wall and a chimney on its gable. The right-hand addition, once a shippon, has`a similar window, and a door to the left with plain reveals. Its right-hand gable wall contains a re-set battlemented lintel with a carved badger, the crest of the Fitzherbert-Brockholes family. Inside, the left-hand room of the original house has a firehood bressumer and two exposed axial ceiling beams, all with edge roll mouldings. In the rear wall of the hearth there is a spice cupboard with carved door inscribed: 'ATAR 1689'. The beams visible on the 1st floor are also moulded. In the attic the timber corbels which carried the chimney cap associated with the firehood remain. The roof trusses have collars and queen struts.

Listing NGR: SD5131742777