Number 22 With Former Cottage And Stable Adjoining To The East

WASH GREEN 1. 5175 No 22 with former cottage and stable adjoining to the east SK 2953 2/119

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1. 1758 (dated on front door lintel). A large house standing on street boundary. Formerly the Ship Inn. Brick with plinth; front elevation rendered and incised to simulate ashlar. Stone quoins exposed at rears. Plain tiled roof with stone ridge and coped gable ends with moulded kneelers. Brick end stacks. 3 storeys. Symmetrical 2 window facade. 2 light casements with glazing bars; square section stone mullion between lights. Centre doorway with plain stone surround and small flat hood. 2 steps to street and C19 half glazed door with margin lights.

Rear elevation has full height C18 stair window above doorway with square section stone surround and leaded lights. Small brick cross wing set into hillside with cellar off-shut and small chamber above.

Interior contains several items of interest relating to former inn including fixed settle beside hearth in east and ground floor room (settle as baffle) and serving hatch to same room. Window seats (panelled on 1st floor), and 6 panelled doors throughout. Plain staircase; with plan identical on all floors. Lower 2 storey building adjoins to east. Formerly cottage and stable with over-loft forming part of the inn. Coursed grit stone rubble; front elevation rendered as house. Large graduated Welsh slate roof. Plain gables and centre brick stack. C18 square section 2-light mullioned window to ground and 1st floor. Plain plank door at western end and planked double doors to stable entrance at east end with modern window above. To north, yard with limestone setts.

(Some fragmentary remains of possible heavy doorway in rear elevation suggest No 22 may have been an C18 rebuilding of an earlier house)

Listing NGR: SK2910853999