Beaconsfield Terrace

SJ 22 NE OSWESTRY RURAL C.P. MORDA

5/192 Beaconsfield Terrace 19.7.85 GV II

Terrace of 6 cottages. Circa 1800 with later alterations. Red brick, slate roof. Deep plan. 2 storeys, part dentilled and part toothed eaves cornice; original fenestration pattern, windows to left and right of central paired entrances to each pair of cottages, 16-paned glazing bar sashes with gauged heads and stone cills, those to third cottage from left replaced with late C20 top-hung casements at time of re-survey (July 1985); plain pedimented wooden doorcases to each cottage, except third from left which has no doorcase and late C20 half-glazed door, although only right-hand pair retains original 6-panel doors; 2 prominent red brick stacks in roof slope to front with similar stacks behind and integral stacks to each gable end (again in front of ridge) also repeated behind. Forms a good roadside group with Morda Mill (q.v.) and the near-contemporary buildings of Morda House (now largely demolished but q.v. under Morda Hall and Nightingale Wing of former Morda Hospital) opposite.

Listing NGR: SJ2880728032