Picton House

SP 0937 8/38

BROADWAY CP HIGH STREET (north side) No 42 (Picton House)

30.7.59

GV II* House. Circa 1700 with early and late C18 additions and alterations. Limestone ashlar with stone slate roof. Two storeys with attic. Earliest part of five bays. Windows are sashed with glazing bars and have rebated and chamfered surrounds and projecting sills. Narrow stones in the jambs suggest that they originally had a mullion and transom. Above the ground floor windows is a band of narrow stones, possibly where a string course has been removed. At the left are two added bays which have sashes with glazing bars, plain reveals, projecting sills, and keyed lintels. At the right is another addition of one bay which has a sash with glazing bars, plain reveals, and projecting sill above an elliptical arch to a yard entrance. Five hipped attic dormers. The door, in the middle bay, is of six panels within a lugged architrave of c1700 with a transom light and an added projecting timber hood. At the rear a wing projecting from the early part of the house has rebated and chamfered mullioned windows.

Interior: right-hand room has exposed chamfered beam and stone inglenook fireplace with timber bressummer.

Listing NGR: SP0973437552