Weavers Yard

SEDBERGH

SD6592SE MAIN STREET, Sedbergh Town 162-1/26/428 (South side (off)) 11/08/78 Weavers Yard, Nos.2 and 3

GV II

Pair of weavers' cottages, now integrated as dwelling and office. Probably c1800; recently altered and renovated. Mixed random rubble with quoins, stone slate roof. Rectangular 2-unit plan on west side of yard. EXTERIOR: 3 low storeys, 4 windows; doorway in centre of 1st floor (formerly a pair of doorways, but that on the left now altered as a window) approached by a large flight of 10 steps rising along the front wall from the right and terminating on an extended deck. The ground floor or basement has a doorway and window left of the steps, and a shallow window to the right of the top steps, the 1st floor has 2 windows each side of the doorway (that to the left formerly the 2nd doorway), and all these openings have sandstone lintels; the 2nd floor has smaller windows over the 1st and 3rd at 1st floor, and a blocked former window over the 2nd. All the windows have altered joinery. Gable chimney to the left. Left gable wall has a low single-storey outbuilding attached at ground floor (formerly privies), through-stones on 2 levels above, and 2 small windows to each upper floor. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with Nos 5 and 7 facing from the opposite side of the yard (qv).

Listing NGR: SD6578292111