54 And 56, High Street

SE40SW WATH UPON DEARNE HIGH STREET (south side)

2/47 Nos 54 and 56

II

House. Mid C18, rewindowed and extended in early C19. Deeply-coursed, dressed sandstone; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with partial attic. Earlier central block with two 1st-floor windows with lower additions, each with one 1st-floor window,to each end. Central part: quoins; panelled double-door to left of centre in stone architrave with plinth blocks and cornice. Flanking 16-pane sashes in projecting surrounds with sunken panels, paterae and cornices; 1st-floor windows the same. Wing to left set back: panelled door to right in projecting square-cut surround. Semi-elliptical bay window to left with ashlar apron, 20-pane sash flanked by 8-pane sashes, pulvinated frieze and cornice. Sash with glazing bars above has plain surround. Wing to right: panelled door to left, 16-pane sash to each floor; all with plain projecting surrounds. Shaped kneelers and ashlar gable copings throughout. Central brick ridge stack; end stack to right; rendered end stack to left.

Interior: unusual narrow staircases to attic which fold down from wall recesses. Collared principal rafter trusses. Low outbuilding to right not of special interest.

Listing NGR: SE4386900859