Number 30 (Piercy House) And Number 32

SE 6886-6986 6/64

KIRKBYMOORSIDE PIERCY END (west side) No 30 (Piercy House) and No 32 (even)

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House and attached outbuilding: now house and cottage. Mid C18 with earlier origins; subdivided early C19. House: hammer-dressed sandstone to front on rubble plinth; coursed rubble sandstone to sides and rear; ashlar quoins; pantile roof; rebuilt brick stacks. Cottage: coursed rubble sandstone; pantile roof. House: centre stairhall plan, one room deep, with staircase and service outshut; later kitchen added to rear. 2-storey, 3-window front. Central 6-panel door under divided rectangular fanlight. 16-pane sashes with stone sills throughout. Heavy, plain lintels to all openings. Cavetto-moulded eaves course. Coped gables and shaped kneelers. End stacks. Cottage: 6-panel door approached by stone steps, to left of 2-light small-paned horizontal sliding sash. Similar window above. Interior of house: original fittings include 6-panel doors with moulded, fielded panels and moulded architraves. Early C18, open string, cantilevered staircase, with turned balusters, fluted and reeded column newel, and wreathed handrail. Fielded dado panelling to first floor. Firehood survives in first floor room to right, and there is a later stone fireplace with a corbelled-out lintel between scrolls inserted beneath the bressumer in the room below. To either side are cupboards with panelled doors on H-L hinges. In the ground floor room to left is a carved stone fireplace with attached fluted and reeded columns, moulded architrave, carved frieze with strapwork panels, and dentilled cornice shelf. Fielded dado panelling continues across blocked doorway into cottage.

Listing NGR: SE6972686355