238,240, LONGEDGE LANE

WINGERWORTH SK36NE LONGEDGE LANE 1264-0/6/146 (North side) Nos.238 AND 240

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A pair of semi-detached houses. Mid to late C19. Regularly coursed Coal Measures Sandstone with channelled ashlar dressings, quoins, oversailing eaves and verges, tall end wall, stacks with moulded caps, together with one central front wall stack at the junction of the 2 houses. Decorative plain tile roof, with 3 plain courses followed by a 2-course band of pointed tiles. Crested clay ridge tiles. A pair of houses in the Vernacular Revival style, though not Derbyshire vernacular, each of 2 bays. Each has an advanced outer gable, and a gabled inner bay, together with a hipped single-storey porch on the angle of the 2 bays. Outer gable with a central 3-light mullioned and transomed window below a first floor 2-light window of matching type, both windows within quoined jambs and beneath segmental relieving arches above the window heads. Metal casement frames with margin leaded lights. In the gable apex a lancet ventilation opening or breather. Inner gabled bay with identical arrangement of windows, but with a small plaque bearing a heraldic device to the gable apex. Each porch has a doorway to the front, beneath a 4-centred arched lintel. Planked doors with elaborate strap hinges.

Listing NGR: SK3736867363