The Wool Shop

DENT

SD7086 MAIN STREET, Dent Town 162-1/25/198 (South side) 16/03/54 The Wool Shop (Formerly Listed as: MAIN STREET Middleton's Shop and adjoining house)

GV II

Small house, now shop. Probably late C17 or early C18, altered in later C18 or early C19. Random rubble (the front painted white), stone slate roof. Single-depth 3-unit plan. EXTERIOR: 2 low storeys and 4 windows grouped 1:3. The ground floor has a doorway in the centre with a panelled and part-glazed door, and a deep stone lintel which has C17 carved decoration (lozenges, flowers, etc.); a large oblong 18-pane shop window to the left, and a large almost-square 15-pane shop window to the right. The upper floor has 16-pane sashes above the doorway and to the left, and a larger 20-pane sash to the right, all hornless and with exposed boxes. Further to the left there is a similar sashed window on each floor. Large square chimney on ridge at junction to left. Rear: small doorway offset right, with drip-band over it, a round-headed 1-light window above and to the right (with glazing bars), a 3-light mullioned window to the left at ground floor with a drip-band, an altered 3-light window above this, and one window on each floor at the right-hand end, the upper sashed with glazing bars. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with house adjoining to the right (qv) and with Post Office adjoining to the left (qv).

Listing NGR: SD7051686960