31, 32 AND 33, MAIN STREET

SP 02 SW WHITTINGTON MAIN STREET (south side)

2/125 Nos 31, 32 and 33 23.1.52 GV II

Row of 3 cottages. C17-early C18 and late C18. Coursed squared and dressed limestone and limestone rubble, stone slate roof, stone, brick and artificial stone stack. No 32 at centre of row probably built first, No 31 subsequently added to east gable end, No 33 added in late C18 to west gable end. Lean-to store at gable end of No 31 and C20 lean-to at rear of No 33 not of special interest. No 31 and 32 two storeys. Combined garden front of all 3 properties, 4-windowed with 2-light stone-mullioned casements to first floor and 2 and 3-light stone-mullioned casements to ground floor. All windows with horizontal glazing bars. Projecting bread oven left of lower right-hand window. Low blocked doorway with timber lintel towards right gable end of No 31. C19 plank door to No 32 within corrugated iron gabled porch. Rear wall (facing road); 2 low doorways with timber lintels (now blocked) to No 32. Wide raking buttress to No 33 with C19 plank doorway right. Blocked doorway with timber lintel and 2-light wooden casement to No 33. Entrance to No 33 via gable end; central plank door within corrugated-iron porch with double-chamfered single-light left. Two-light stone-mullioned casement to upper floor. Gable end axial and lateral (brick) stack. Low doorways into rear of No 31 suggest it was possibly originally used for agricultural purposes and subsequently converted. Interiors not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP0147620883