Banner House

TA 0621-0721 BARROW UPON HUMBER BECK LANE (east side)

14/107 Banner House

GV II

House and store, formerly part of the priory (qv). c1800, for the Sergeant family, with earlier origins. Orange brown brick in Flemish bond, with orange brick to window arches and gable tumbling. Pantile roof. Double-depth plan with 2-room central entrance-hall front. 3 storeys, 3 irregular bays. Entrance to left of centre has original wooden architrave with shallow hood, C20 door beneath 3-pane overlight in reveal. Windows to either side have C20 12-pane casements in original openings with cambered rubbed-brick arches and stone sills. First-floor windows have similar glazing in similar openings with segmental header brick arches and stone sills. Low second floor has small hatches, each with a pair of board doors with strap hinges in flush frames with stone sills. Stepped eaves with wooden gutter on paired modillion brackets. Tumbled-in brick to raised right gable. End stacks. Right return, which incorporates part of the former gable end of an earlier building on the left (streetfront) side , has a small C20 12-paned window to ground-floor and an original board door beneath a segmental arch. to the second floor. Rear, adjoining the priory ( see item 14/15 ), has an angled corner jettied out at second floor level. Interior: Ground floor front and rear right rooms have moulded dado rails, panelled cupboard doors and 6-panel doors in architraves. Open well staircases with plain balusters, grip handrail and slender turned newels. Unusual 7 bay collared-rafter roof with clasped purlins: the lower part of each principal rafter is supported by a post which is tied by a short horizontal to the rafter foot, and braced with a raking strut to the floor joist. Pegged mortise and tenon joints throughout, with additional wrought iron straps to the raking struts. Recent renovation work on the ground floor revealed traces of painted decoration beneath the wallpaper: stencilled floral patterns in the rear room, painted floral murals in the front room and blockwork in the hall. Originally part of the same property as the priory, this range was added shortly after the main house was built.

Listing NGR: TA0736921589