Balderton Hall Cottages

SJ 42 SE MYDDLE C.P. -

7/85 Nos. 1 and 2, - Balderton Hall Cottages

• II

House, now divided. Circa 1600 and mid-C17 with C18 or C19 alterations. Timber framed with painted brick nogging on rendered plinth, end wall to south rebuilt in rendered brick; graded slate roof. Framing: c.1600 large square panels to right (2 from sole plate to wall plate) with short straight corner braces; mid-C17 small square panels to centre, 3 from sole plate to wall plate. Framing to left probably altered small square panels. 3 framed bays, at right angles to road; the northernmost bay is probably the earliest (c.1600), the other two C17 additions. One storey and attic. East front: 2 large central gabled eaves dormers with C19 small-paned 2-light wooden casements. Parapeted gable end to left with external brick end stack, central brick ridge stack, and brick ridge stack off-centre to right. 5-window front; central pair of 2- and 3-light C19 wooden casements; pair of probably C18 horizontal glazing bar sashes to right and left, and small probable staircase window off-centre to left. Boarded door between first and second windows from right. Collar and tie-beam truss in right-hand gable end with queen struts and V-struts. C20 painted brick lean- to set back to right. 3 gabled eaves dormers and central lean-to addition at rear. Entrance to No. 1 at rear. Interior not inspected. David G. Hey, An English Rural Community: Myddle Under the Tudors and Stuarts, Leicester University Press (1974) p.122.

Listing NGR: SJ4801523913