Red House Cottage

SJ 6634-6734 MARKET DRAYTON C.P. SHROPSHIRE STREET (south-east side)

13/69 No. 31 (Red House Cottage)

GV II

House. Early C18, incorporating probably C17 core. Remodelled in the early C19. Rendered over brick, on painted sandstone plinth. Plain tile roof. 2 cell baffle-entry plan. 2 storeys and attic over basement. C18 moulded plinth. Pair of hipped full dormers with glazing bar sashes. Central brick ridge stack with pilaster shafts and brick weathering (late C19 brick top).2-window front; 16-pane glazing bar sashes with exposed boxes and painted stone cills. Central C18 door with 6 raised and fielded panels, moulded architrave and simple wooden doorcase with panelled pilaster strips and triangular-pedimented hood resting on shaped brackets with guttae. 3 stone steps up to door. Low red sandstone walled areas flanking doorway,formerly the bases of railed enclosures. Right-hand gable end of house rebuilt in late C19 red brick. Rear: 2 gabled wings; right-hand one has first-floor tripartite glazing bar sash (centre now 2 casements) with painted keyed stone lintel. Interior: mid-C18 rectangular-well oak staircase with winders, closed string with pulvinated frieze, turned balusters, moulded handrail and panelled square newel posts with beaded corners and moulded caps. Fireplace in left-hand ground-floor room with C17 roll- moulded stone inner surround and probably early C18 surround with frieze and dentil cornice; reset section of C17 carving above consisting of mask with flanking dragons. Small cupboards flanking fireplace with 2-panelled doors. Restored C17 carved fireplace surround in right-hand ground-floor room with flanking pilasters and overmantel consisting of 3 panels with lozenges and stylized foliage etc., and carved cornice at half-height. Segmental-arched niche to left with shelves, and cupboard below incorporating reused C17 panelling with carved lozenges etc. First-floor room, in C18 rear wing has fireplace with lugged marble surround, frieze with husk swags and moulded cornice. Mainly 6-panelled doors throughout. Three early C18 oak doors (one to first floor, one between ground-floor rooms and one under stairs) each with 2 raised and fielded panels and H-L hinges (front door also with H-L hinges). Panelled window shutters and reveals. Old oak boards to first floor and attic. Roof: Rear wall plate exposed internally. Eaves raised, probably in the C18. Collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts. Single purlins. This house was probably formerly a C17 timber framed building, rebuilt in the early C18, extended in the late C18 and further remodelled in the early C19. It was formerly linked to,and part of,the adjoining house, No. 29, The Red House (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ6747234077