21, Church Street

MANSFIELD

SK5361 CHURCH STREET 924-1/5/165 (North East side) 08/10/93 No.21

II

House, now shop. c1600, altered c1780 and street front added c1880. Ashlar with ashlar dressings and slate roof with a single white brick stack. Rear house, C1600 altered c1780. Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and pantile roof with a single gable stack. Chamfered bands and moulded eaves. 3 storeys. Ground floor has C20 shop front and above a pair of plain sashes in chamfered ashlar surrounds on each floor. Rear house, 2-storey; 2-room plan. West front has central doorway with double panel doors, flanked by single boarded sashes, and above 2 similar windows, all openings with flush ashlar surrounds. The top left and bottom right windows show clear evidence of larger earlier window surrounds, evidence on the other windows is hidden by later render. East front has 2 glazing bar windows and a small blocked opening between, and a section of chamfered band. Above another small blocked opening and to the left a 2-light glazing bar casement set within a large, partly blocked, 6-light chamfered, cross mullion window. INTERIOR: rear range has a good quality late C18 fireplace on the ground floor and above a fine stone fireplace with 4-centred arch c1600. The roof timbers have been dendro dated to 1584-5; three trusses with lapped collars and queen post struts on tie beams, the northern truss partly collapsed; the purlins survive and some braces to the principal rafters.

Listing NGR: SK5397661071