Albion House

SE 7803-7903 20/61

EPWORTH ALBION HILL (south side)

No 8/10 (Albion House)

GV II

House, now house and shop. Mid C18 with mid-late C19 shop front. Brick in Flemish bond, colour-washed to front, with stucco plinth. Concrete tile roof. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Deep plinth. Entrance to left of centre has 4-panelled door and overlight with margin lights in architrave and reveal. Shop front to right has panelled surround with ornate carved consoles carrying panelled dosserets, cornice and hood, plate-glass windows with moulded mullions above beaded panels, central recessed glazed door. To left, a 12-pane replacement sash in flush wooden architrave with sill beneath painted rubbed-brick flat arch with raised ashlar keystone. First-floor sill band. Similar first-floor windows with original sashes. Plain wooden eaves board. Stone-coped gables with shaped kneelers. C19 rebuilt end stacks. Interior. Both shop and house contain C19 single-flight staircases with scrolled wrought-iron balustrade, moulded handrail, octagonal newel post; chamfered spine beams to house. The adjoining range to left, now part of house, is not of special interest. W Read, History of the Isle of Axholme, 1858, frontispiece.

Listing NGR: SE7835403754