Priest Cottage

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SS 71 NE 4/39

MESHAW Priest Cottage

(Formerly listed as CLEAVE HILL Prescott)

II

House. C17 or earlier, much C19 alteration, restored and extended late C20. Rubble stone and cob, rendered, slate roof with a clay ridge, tall lateral stack on the frontage.

Plan: single room depth, three rooms-and-through-passage, lower end to left of passage, formerly heated by a gable axial stack, this now completely removed by a previous owner, plank and muntin partition to right of through-passage giving onto central hall with the lateral stack at the front, unheated inner room with false C20 fireplace. Through-passage widened C20 when a staircase was inserted. First floor with C19 and C20 rearrangement, roof completely replaced in C19.

Exterior: Two storeys. Asymmetrical, 2:2 window range, two and three-light C20 casements, each with a single horizontal glazing bar. Door opening to the through-passage to the left, C20 glazed door. Large C20 two-storeyed addition at the rear with a flat roof, small mock cupola.

Interior: lower room featureless. Hall with a ceiling cross beam, deep chamfered to the inner face with a cyma stop. Plank and muntin screen to through-passage, semi-circular head doorway with chamfered edges, old plank door. Hall fireplace with roughly smoothed wooden bressumer. Doorway with a round-headed frame to inner room, featureless except for roughly hewn ceiling cross beam, inserted C20 secondary staircase.

Roof: first floor with five-bayed C19 roof, no evidence of early work.

Listing NGR: SS7654219571