Factory Building Outbuilding Attached To Number 55

This is a factory building outbuilding attached to number 55, originally a house that was converted into a blanket-making factory in the early 19th century and is now used as offices and a store. The building dates from the late 17th to early 18th century, with later alterations. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, with a 19th-century stucco front and a gabled stone slate roof featuring a ridge stack made of stone finished in brick. The structure is L-shaped with a rear left wing and has two storeys with a five-window range. There is a timber lintel over a through-entry with 19th-century plank doors to the right. Most of the windows are 20th-century, except for some late 17th and early 18th-century wood-mullioned and transomed cross windows located to the right of the first floor (three) and to the left of the ground floor (two). A gabled hoist opening has a plank door and a wood jib-crane.

To the rear left, there are two late 17th and early 18th-century two-storey ranges made of similar materials, featuring early 19th-century keyed brick segmental arches over openings and two 18th-century gabled roof dormers. Inside, there are stop-chamfered and chamfered beams, a collar-truss roof with butt purlins, and a butt-purlin roof in the rear left wing.

Additionally, there is a late 17th or early 18th-century outbuilding to the rear left, also made of similar materials. This L-shaped, two-storey structure has a plank door beneath stone steps leading to a plank loft door. Its interior features a 19th-century cobbled runway, chamfered beams, and a 17th-century collar truss in the rear. Further back is an early 19th-century factory building made of squared and coursed limestone with a gabled Welsh-slate roof. This three-storey building has a four-window range, with keyed brick segmental arches, segmental stone arches, and attic timber lintels over casement windows. It also has plank loft doors to the first floor and attic, the latter equipped with an iron jib-crane. Inside, there are chamfered beams, quarter-turn stairs, and a king-post roof. The building was formerly a blanket-making factory owned by the Early family, as indicated on the 1876 Ordnance Survey map.