11 Haw Street and outbuildings to rear

11 Haw Street and Outbuildings to Rear

A house dating from the 18th century, with a workshop of similar date and an early 19th-century privy or bothy.

The house is rendered and whitewashed, probably over stone, with slate roofs and red brick chimneys. It forms a three-bay linear building running south-west to north-east along Haw Street, with a double-depth plan. The first floor of the third bay extends over a cart entrance to the rear. A single-storey range runs away from the rear of the house. The yard includes a large workshop extending further to the rear, running north-west to south-east, adjoining a further range in separate ownership and not accessible from the yard. Beyond these in the former garden stands a small building, either a bothy or a privy, against the south-western boundary.

The main elevation presents a three-bay range. The two left-hand bays are each of three storeys; the right-hand bay, which is wider, has a cart entrance to the ground floor with two storeys above. The far left-hand bay houses the entrance doorway under a small pent-roofed canopy on timber brackets with slate covering, and a raised-and-fielded six-panelled door (the upper four now glazed) under an astragal-glazed rectangular fanlight. All windows are hornless sashes: those to the ground and first floors have eight-over-eight panes, and those to the second floor four-over-eight, except the first floor over the cart entrance, which has a long strip window with three six-paned horizontal-sliding sashes. The roof is hipped to the left-hand end and has a wide rectangular ridge stack between the main house and the third bay. The cart entrance has wide double timber gates in two sections. To the rear, the first floor above the cart way is reached by brick-built steps with stone treads, leading to a timber platform and allowing access to part-glazed 19th-century double doors. The windows are similar to those of the main elevation and include a small stair window. A single-storey range, whose roof is a lean-to against the adjacent house, comprises two parts: that to the left dating from the 18th or early 19th century, the right bay slightly later. Both are built in brick with slate roofs. The left-hand range has a raking dormer window with rectangular leaded glazing, and both have 19th-century timber casements to the ground floor. Each bay has a timber door.

Interior

The interior retains much of its joinery and decorative scheme from the late 18th century, with some 19th and 20th-century additions. The rooms have pegged doorcases and architraves, and the front windows have folding shutters; the doors are all four-panel bead-and-butt examples of the 19th century. Floorboards survive throughout. The ground floor has a hall running from front to back, with two principal rooms off the hall. To the rear, the hall gives access to the single-storey service range, which has early 20th-century fittings. The ground-floor rooms in the main house have moulded skirting boards, chair rails and picture rails, and feature arched niches and built-in cupboards. Both fireplaces have been replaced with 1950s tile fire surrounds and hearths. The stair, which rises through two floors, is a closed-string with elegantly turned newels and plain stick balusters. The first floor has moulded skirting boards; one room retains a late 19th or early 20th-century cast-iron fireplace and surround of elaborate design with green and yellow tile inserts and hearth, and a fitted cupboard. The second floor has been subdivided, with the larger bedroom divided into two narrower rooms, and the other has a much later matchboard partition creating a bathroom.

The room above the cart entrance is accessible only from the external stairs, through double doors to the rear. The interior is a single open space rising through the first and second floors, with a partition to half height running across the width of the room. The partition has a large multi-paned internal window creating a light internal room, possibly an office or workshop. It retains its floorboards; the ceiling has been clad in much later boarding.

Workshop

In the yard to the rear of the house stands a large detached workshop, formerly a wheelwright's workshop. It is a stone building with brick patching and a pantile roof with brick stack, of two storeys and six uneven bays. The left-hand bay has wide double doors, with a three-light window to the right; above this a taking-in door is flanked by three-light windows. To the right, a narrow entrance door has a three-light window to its right, with a taking-in door (now glazed) flanked by three-light windows above. The fenestration is varied, but the openings have timber lintels above, and the windows are generally divided into three lights; one retains a diamond-panel leaded light. A slightly projecting chimney-breast sits in the centre of the main elevation. The south-east gable end has a 20th-century window in an enlarged opening; to the other gable end, windows to ground and first floor have been blocked to allow another range in separate ownership and accessed only from 13 Haw Street to be constructed against the external wall.

Internally, the ground floor is a single open space. At the north-western end stands a brick-built forge with bellows in a timber frame. A later segmental-arched brick fireplace has been constructed against the front wall, with a small flue rising through the floor. The floor is laid in cobbles and stone flags, level at either end but falling markedly in the central section, perhaps due to early settlement of the ground. This fall is reflected in the first floor. The first floor is carried on exposed, chamfered ceiling beams with narrower section joists. Strengthening piers of brick and concrete block have been inserted towards the rear wall. A simple open-tread ladder stair gives access to the first floor. The space is open to the rafters: the roof structure comprises trusses of principal rafters, tie beams and lapped-on yokes, with single threaded purlins; some trusses have queen struts, and there are diagonally set windbraces. Inserted partitions divide off rooms at either end of the space. In the south-eastern end, opposite the taking-in door, a wheel pulley is set into the roof space. One truss has been closed using vertical timber panelling. The brick stack from the forge rises through the roof; the inserted chimney has been lowered and now ends inside the roof space.

Privy or Bothy

Beyond the workshop, in the former garden, stands a brick-built former privy or garden bothy, a small square structure with a hipped roof covered in slate. It appears on the tithe map of 1842 and probably dates from the early 19th century.

(The early 20th-century outbuilding and 1960s garage are excluded from the designation.)