Windles Square

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SK 64 NW 5/27

CALVERTON MAIN STREET (north side) Windles Square Nos.1-8 inclusive

(Formerly listed as Nos 1 to 11)

13.10.66

II

Eleven knitters' cottages, now eight houses. 1834. Restored and remodelled 1972. Brick, partly rendered, with pantile roofs. Corbelled eaves, ten ridge and two gable stacks. Two storeys, ten bays wide by ten bays deep. L-plan. Windows are casements, 1972, mostly with segmental heads, some being large knitters' windows. West side has to left, casement and doorway with segmental head. To its right, a knitter's window and to right again, door and two small lights. Beyond, two casements flanked by single doors. Beyond again, door flanked to left by two small lights and to right by two casements. To right again, a blocked opening. Above, eleven casements. North side has three lean-to additions, 1972, and regular fenestration with five doors and six casements. Above, eleven casements. Rear elevations have similar regular fenestration with ground floor openings with segmental heads.

This building is an early group of knitters' cottages with ground floor workrooms.

Listing NGR: SK6205349119