Nesfield And Mulgrave Cottage

GOATHLAND GOATHLAND VILLAGE NZ824005 20/101 Nesfield and Mulgrave Cottage GV II Two houses. c.1896 with later alteration and extension. By W.H.Brierley for Mr M.McEacharn. Herringbone-tooled sandstone re-used from parish church of 1821, replaced 1894-96 by Church of St.Mary (q.v.). Tooled dressings and pantile roofs. Each cottage has 2-storey, 3-window front. Mulgrave Cottage at right slightly lower than Nesfield. Nesfield: board door with inserted glazing and original ironwork beneath bracketed flat hood. Small 4-pane fixed light at left, and two 2-light, 16-pane casements further left. Window right of door is of 3 similar lights, the centre one a casement. First floor windows are 6-pane casements, of 3 lights on each side of dropped, 2-light staircase window over door. Windows all have chamfered sills and all lintels are tooled. Coped gables and raised kneelers. End stacks, the left one external. Mulgrave Cottage mirrors Nesfield, with unaltered door. Interiors. Both houses have closed-string, dogleg staircases with diagonally-set stick balusters and moulded, raking handrail, and original board doors and door furniture. In Nesfield kitchen fireplace with high bracketed moulded shelf is retained. In Mulgrave Cottage, original fireplaces survive in all first floor rooms, with moulded surrounds and stepped and moulded cornice mantelshelves. Architectural Review, Vol.15, 1904; pp.262 and 263: W.Shaw Sparrow, The British Home of Today, 1904; fig. B.43.

Listing NGR: NZ8307601248