12, Middle Street

ELTON MIDDLE STREET TL 0893 (North Side) 15/59 No.12 13.12.57 (formerly listed as Dial House) GV II House. Dated '1690 RM' on stone plaque above door with later C19 and C20 additions. Coursed limestone with dressed limestone band above windows and doorway, and raised band between floors. Collyweston stone slated roofs. Two storeys with attics and rear outshut. Five slightly irregular symmetrical bays. Parapet gables with end stacks, one shaft to left hand and two shafts to right hand of ashlar limestone; moulded wooden eaves cornice. Three ground floor cross-framed casement windows with large leaded lights and one blocked window to left hand of doorway with C19 panelled door and rectangular fanlight; five first floor windows similar to ground floor. Three gabled dormer windows. Sundial dated 'RG MDCCXX VII' painted plaque with Roman numerals and gnome. Interior: Original plan altered for insertion of fine C17 closed string staircase with turned balusters and moulded hand rail, the ground floor window was blocked at this time. Some late C17 bolection moulded panelled doors; C19 details.

Listing NGR: TL0869893831