Maplesale

Maplesale is a large, semi-detached corner house, likely dating back to the early or mid-17th century with a significant refronting in the early 18th century. The construction utilizes coursed rubble stone with a rendered plinth, featuring alternating flush quoins. The roof is covered in stone slates, with a section at the rear made of artificial material. A large external stone stack is present on the left side, featuring offsets, and another stack with a brick flue is on the right.

Originally comprising a single front range, the house incorporates a nearly central, rear-projecting gabled stair tower, retaining its original wooden newel staircase. A smaller, parallel range was added to the rear on the right, likely in the late 17th or early 18th century, along with a long kitchen and stable cross range to the left, which sits on a higher level.

The main front range is two stories high with an attic, and originally featured two windows. These windows now have 12-pane and 16-pane sashes set within moulded stone surrounds, which originally had two-light stone mullions. Two 12-pane sashes are positioned below, with relieving arches that now cut through the upper windows at sill level. A central stone doorcase includes moulded jambs and lintel, topped by a flat wooden hood with a dentil cornice and elaborately carved scroll brackets. A small gabled dormer features twin 6-pane wood casements.

The rear stair tower has a blocked single-light stone framed window at the top, a blocked two-light stone mullion with a square hoodmould below, and an unblocked two-light at the lowest level. On the left-hand return, a two-light stone mullion survives to the rear of the external stack. Two windows have been lengthened into 12-pane sashes in front of the stack, with a small single stone framed window set into the attic. A rear wing contains a wooden notice with a painted byelaw from the former Farringdon District Council, likely dating from the 19th century, though the wording is now mostly illegible. A stone ramp from the front creates a level path to the garden gate, positioned behind the rear range. A former pony access leads to the long stable range, which has an asbestos tile roof and scattered openings with timber lintels.

The interior features stop-chamfered spine beams, a 18th-century panelled room to the left of the entrance door, and remains of a two-light stone mullion with a square hoodmould on the rear wall of a room – now located in the kitchen.