48, High Street

STEEPLE ASHTON HIGH STREET ST 9056 (west side) 13/260 No 48 11.9.68 GV II

House and shop. C15 hall house, altered C16 and late C19. Square-panelled timber-framing with painted brick nogging on dressed stone plinth with buttresses, ground floor partly rebuilt in brick, stone slate roof, stone stack to cross wing, brick stack to right gable end of main range. Hall house with cross wing. Two-storey, 2-window. Main range has C19 gabled porch with planked door and two early C20 two-light casements to right, 5-light leaded casement to first, cross wing to left has C19 brick ground floor flush with jettied first floor, 4-panelled door and early C20 shop front, C20 cross window over. Left return has large lateral stone stack with offsets. Right return timber-framing with rubble stone infilling, small chamfered lights, four blocked and one open. Rear has single-storey additions to main range, cross wing has leaded casements. Interior has C16 inserted ceiling in former hall with moulded cross beams, blocked open fireplaces. Ground floor of cross wing altered by shop.

Listing NGR: ST9069356754