Number 64 (Moonrakers) (Including North Part Formerly Separately Listed As Moonrakers, Under The Valley)

TL 1821 ST PAUL'S WALDEN HIGH STREET (North side) Whitwell

12/144 No. 64 (Moonrakers) 27.5.68 (including N part formerly separately listed as Moonrakers, under The Valley)

GV II

House. Circa 1500 open hall house with storeyed N service crosswing, chimney inserted in cross-passage and floor in hall in late C16, hall heightened and S wing built on site of original parlour wing in late C17 (graffito of topping out ceremony with 'FPA/1686'), Divided into 5 cottages by late C18, restored as one house 1963. Timber frame exposed at front (W) on 1st floor with plastered infill to jettied N wing and flush S wing but red brick infill to hall range. Roughcast on ground floor and S side but red brick to front of hall range. Steep old red tile roofs. An irregular H-plan house facing W on corner with The Valley. 4 windows long front and 2 to S end. Front has 2-lights casement windows with small panes to 1st floor and 3-lights similar windows to ground floor. Very large external N end chimney in narrow red bricks. N wing has tension braces set back behind studs and not intended to be seen. S crosswing has braces flush with studs. Interior has re-used smoke blackened rafters with mortices for collars, jowled posts at level of old hall range eaves, cut through tie-beam at this level, clasped-purlin roof to N wing which had one room on each floor. Chamfered and stopped joists and axial beams to floor inserted in hall. (RCHM Typescript: Morris (1980)40).

Listing NGR: TL1838621158