Water Side House

COLTON NEWBY BRIDGE SD 38 NE 7/54 Water Side House

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House. Probably 1650-60 with extension of 1675. Roughcast stone with slate roof. 3 storeys, 5 bays, with single-storey single-bay former outbuilding to left. Most windows are sashed with single-glazing bars and horns but 2nd bay of ground floor has vertical glazing bars and 3rd bay has window with small-paned fixed glazing; 2nd floor has 2-light windows; former outbuilding has 3-light wooden mullioned window, chamfered to inside. Entrance to 3rd bay has 2-panel door, that to 4th bay has wide-boarded door with old lock plate. Gable-end stacks to 3-storey part, that to left has truncated projecting part. Rear has gabled wing with lean-to stair wing to left return. 1st bay has C20 casement to ground floor; stair wing has 2 windows with fixed glazing; left return of wing has ground floor 3-light wooden chamfered-mullioned window with slated lintel; floors above have casement windows, that to 2nd floor with iron opening light. Right return of wing has 2 wooden chamfered-mullioned windows of 3 lights, that to right is C20; 1st floor has similar window of 4 lights with 3 remaining intermediate bars, glazing to outside. Gable-end stack. Former outshut has sashed window with glazing bars and horns, with 3-light wooden flat-mullioned window to right. Left return has 3-light wooden mullioned window, chamfered inside, entrance with wide-boarded door to left and 1st floor wide-boarded studded loading door. Right return is blind. Interior: Ovolo moulded beams; fireplace with corbelled lintel and moulded opening with spice cuboard with door frame to left. 2 doors with 2 fielded panels and dado rails in bolection architraves; 2-light wooden chamfered-mullioned window with intermediate bars and wooden shutters in former rear wall, a rare example. Wing has fireplace plaster overmantel with oak trail border and date 1675 with flanking initials: "RTI" and "CRA". Robert and Isobel Taylor and Charles and Agnes Robinson (Daughter to the Taylors). Dog-leg stair has turned balusters, square newels and moulded hand rail. 1st floor has fielded panelled partitions with dado rails and doors as above, the end rooms with bolection-moulded panelling.

Listing NGR: SD3646286355