25, Low Street

House. Dating from the mid-to-late 18th century, with later alterations, it is a two-room, central lobby-entry plan house with a half-cellar and pantry behind the central staircase. Constructed of yellow-brown brick in contrasting Flemish bond, the front is rendered to the right return and lower courses. It has a concrete tile roof. The main facade is symmetrical, with three bays and two storeys plus an attic. A plinth leads to a six-fielded-panel door beneath a moulded lintel and a four-pane overlight, all within an architrave and segmental stretcher arch. Original twelve-pane sash windows are present in a flush wooden architrave to the left, and a 19th or 20th century three-light casement to the right, both beneath similar segmental arches. The first floor features twelve-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves with sills; the central window is beneath a segmental header arch, while the side bays have 20th century soldier arches. A stepped and cogged brick eaves cornice runs along the top. Stone-coped gables have worn shaped kneelers, and the end stacks, particularly the one on the right, have been rebuilt. A 20th century attic casement is set to the left gable end beneath an original segmental arch, and a pair of 20th century casements are in original openings to the right gable end. The interior retains original features including a winding staircase, spine beams with run-out stops, exposed joists, fielded-panel alcoves, six-panel doors to the ground floor right, and plaster upper floors. This house is notable as one of the few unaltered examples of this specific plan form; similar examples with more generous open-well staircases are found at 64 High Street, Belton, and 87 High Street, Swinefleet. It was illustrated in W Read's History of the Isle of Axholme (1858), page 268.