Whitecote House With Adjoining Ranges

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SE23NW POLLARD LANE, Whitecote 714-1/5/1239 (West side (off)) 05/08/76 Whitecote House with adjoining ranges

GV II

Large house with attached warehouses. Late C18 with restoration and conversion to residential c1990. Coursed squared hammer-dressed gritstone, stone slate roofs. House of 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays, quoins; flanking single-storey wings, of 2 bays, converted to house, on N side; of 7 bays with ruined 2-storey end bay to S; cellars throughout. House: facade to canal has stone steps up to panelled door with overlight in architrave with cornice and fluted frieze; restored 16-pane sashes in plain surrounds, blocked round window in gable, architrave to 1st-floor centre; band at floor and eaves levels; square ashlar stack at centre of each roof slope. Rear: central doorway in plain surround, tall round-headed stair window above, 16-pane sashes, round-arched window in gable. N wing: new fenestration obscures arrangement of window and loading door with steps down to cellar on canal side, arched openings low down on left return. The S wing retains original doorway in plain surround close to house, left, C20 windows, cellar openings below. Raised ground level obscures original openings in the ruined bay but lintel on left return where the bay projects slightly from the line of the S wing suggests cellar access at this point and similar on the S wall. INTERIOR: house not examined; cellar below N wing has stone-flagged floor and cast-iron columns supporting timber cross beams, blocked round-arched recesses suggest blocked access to house cellars. S wing: roof structure of 6 pegged double queen-post trusses, spine wall supporting cross beams which span approx 12m. An important canalside range possibly associated with local brewery ownership; the warehouse doorway positions correspond to the narrow gates in the canal-side railings (qv).

Listing NGR: SE2388936287