Bannitts

SP 0937 BROADWAY CP CHURCH STREET (west side) 8/18 No 11 (Bannits) 30.7.59 GV II* House. Early C17 with alterations and additions 1913 by C E Bateman. Squared limestone with stone slate roof. Two storeys with attic. Windows are rebated and chamfered with mullions. The main range has a 4-light window with hood and king mullion on the ground floor and a 3-light window above under a gable. To the left the wall is blank except for a one-light chamfered window on the first floor. To the right is a chamfered doorway with two chamfered lights above an elliptical head. On the first floor is a 2-light window. At the right is a cross-wing which has a window of four lights with king mullion on the ground floor, one of three lights above, and a 2-light attic window. Adjoining to the right is a bay added in the C20 which has a 4-light first floor window partly within a gable. The south wall of the cross-wing has mullioned windows and a gable which has an attic window of one elliptical light. Gables coped. Chimney, to right of cross-wing, on left-hand gable. To the right of the latter is a third chimney. At the rear of the cross-wing is a wing added by Bateman which has a plaque inscribed "RPJ 1913". Interior: some partition walls are timber-framed. The left-hand room contains a stone inglenook with a bressummer which has pyramid stops. A rear room added by Bateman has a barrel-vaulted plaster ceiling with ribs which are decorated with vine scrolls. A stone fireplace is Tudor-arched with carved rosettes. The roof trusses visible in the attic have tie-beams and interrupted collars. One in the cross-wing re-uses parts of cruck blades.

Listing NGR: SP0940637388