Wye Cottage And Granby Cottage

BAKEWELL

SK2168 WATER STREET 831-1/4/180 (North side) 20/05/74 Wye Cottage and Granby Cottage

GV II

Includes: Wye Cottage and Granby Cottage WATER LANE. Houses now shops and restaurant; Early C17 and probably C18, altered. Roughcast and rubble limestone with some sandstone dressings and quoins; tile and stone slate roofs. EXTERIOR: C17 2-storey, 2-window range (Wye Cottage) with 2-storey, 2-window range side-wing to south-east (Granby Cottage). Wye Cottage: roughcast gabled facade (to Water Lane) has part-glazed door to right of transomed 4-light casement with leaded lights. Similar window above has diamond-section wooden mullions and transom and appears to be C17. Granby Cottage: rubble limestone; inserted window on left of quoined doorway with stone lintel; rock-faced sandstone ridge stack. Rear facing (Water Street): doorways into end and side of Wye Cottage. Angled stone-slated canopy above doorway into Granby Cottage. Scattered fenestration of various C19 and C20 wooden casements; leaded lights. INTERIOR: Wye Cottage: chamfered ashlar side-wall fireplace, chamfered transverse ceiling beam and large-section common joists with stopped chamfers. Collared principal-rafter truss with cranked tie beam and door-head cut out. Spine beam.

Listing NGR: SK2184268512