Horbatt House

SE 45 SW CATTAL CHAPEL STREET (east end)

7/19 Horbatt House

II

House with chapel, now house. Early C19 with late C19 alterations. Brown brick, English bond, blue slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays, 1½ rooms deep. C20 glazed door with overlight in bay 3. C20 glazed lean-to porch. Round-headed archway to left, now covered by C20 lean-to greenhouse. Sash windows with glazing bars in flush wood architraves. A blind window above door. Incised splayed lintels to windows and door. End stacks and ridge stack between bays 1 and 2. Rear elevation has blocked first-floor doorway on right, with the remains of an external stair. Right return has C20 ground-floor windows and evidence of raised eaves. Interior: entrance is into a narrow hall with original doors in reeded architraves with paterae to rooms left and right. Left room has narrow reeded architrave and paterae to window and similar mouldings to fireplace. Right room has recesses with reeded surrounds flanking fireplace. The hall has a round-arched opening to the staircase against the rear wall. First floor has a C19 inserted doorway with 6-panel door into the end room, left. The left bay, first floor, housed the Methodist Chapel until the new church was built to the east of the house, c1892. The room apparently had no internal access, and was reached by passing through the archway front left, to the external stairs at the rear.

Listing NGR: SE4512354145