No 84 (Midway) And Forecourt

CLOVELLY CLOVELLY SS 3124

11/61 No 84 (Midway) and forecourt

20.2.58

GV II

House, probably at one time 2 cottages. The core may be as early as the C18, much rebuilt early C19 and again probably in the late C19. Rubble, rendered and colourwashed on the front, remains of colourwash on the left return, slate roof which is hipped to the left; 2 hipped roofed dormers of 2-lights, 2 large central brick stacks. Plan: symmetrical plan, long central hallway, 2 room depth, these heated by back- to-back lateral stacks. 2 front rooms and 2 back rooms. Exterior: 2 storeys with basement, 3 symmetrical windows on principal entrance frontage, 16-pane double-hang sash windows. Central door opening, 6-panelled door. Ground drops away to left forming a basement under the left half of the building. Elevated forecourt with rubble supporting wail, capped by slate slabs, iron railings. Interior: left room to left of ground floor on front with fireplace of early C19 in reeded surround with roundels at the corners, the rear room on this side of the house with a roughly-hewn unchamfered wooden bressumer. The right front room on the ground floor has the evidence of a blocked door opening to the adjoining cottage to right, No. 85 (q.v).

Listing NGR: SS3175124812