Booker'S

COBERLEY TOWN END SO 91 NE

5/61 Booker's

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Former poorhouse, then 4 cottages, now one house. Mid C17 with later extension. Limestone rubble with dressed stone quoins; stone slate to the east facing roof pitch, slate at rear; stumps of two ashlar stacks both heightened in brick; one rendered stack. Rectangular plan with the gable end to the road; lean-to extension to the rear. Two storeys with 1½ storey lean-to at the rear. Three 2-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned casements with horizontal glazing bars and traces of red colour wash to the ground floor; 2-light fixed casements with horizontal glazing bars and dressed stone surrounds infilling former doorways. Two 4-light wooden casements with horizontal glazing bars to the first floor. Central C20 plank door with a C20 timber lintel within a C20 rubble porch. Three plank doors with early hinges and thumb latches. The far left-hand doorway is within an open-sided C20 porch; small reused trefoil-headed stone window to the right of the porch; three 2-light casements to the ground and first floors. Gable-end and axial stacks. Interior not inspected but contains an open fireplace with bressumer. The house derives its name from the fact that it was bought by John Booker when the Coberley estate was sold in 1720. (D. Alexander, The Story of Coberley)

Listing NGR: SO9562316164