Nos 5-13 Old Hall And Forecourt Wall

NY 01 SW CLEATOR MOOR A5086 (West side) Cleator

Old Hall (Nos 5-13 consec.) & forecourt wall 9/7 6.12.73 G.V. II

Symmetrical group of houses; Late Cl7 Hall, remodelled, subdivided and extended 1845 (date, with initials TA over doors to end blocks). Later additions and alterations. Rendered rubble. Mostly graduated slate roofs but some C20 concrete tiles; C19 diagonally-set brick chimneys. Nos 5 & 6, and 12 & 13 set forward. Both 2 storeys, 3 bays; 2 doors with false 4-centred heads to centre, sash to either side and 3 above. Ground floor openings and 1st floor centre under hoodmoulds with labels. Main block to rear has 3-storey, 3-bay central section (formerly Hall) with full-height wing to centre rear. Central gabled porch has door in either side; sashes. 2-storey, 3-bay house adjoining either end has central door with bracketed cornice, and 2 windows each floor; house to left has C20 lean-to porch, and casements. All other windows sashes, all openings in stone surrounds. Interior: No. 9 has original (C17?) stop-chamfered beams. Forecourt wall alternating courses of boulders and sandstone blocks with semicircular coping, c3 ft high with monolithic gate posts. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: NY0145513435