Murlinch End

House; early C19, possibly incorporating earlier fabric to the rear; various extensions and C20 and C21 alterations.

MATERIALS: it is constructed of lias stone, which is mostly rendered and painted, under slate, clay tile and zinc sheet roofs with brick gable-end chimney stacks to the principal range. The single-bay addition at the north-east corner is also rendered and has an asbestos slate roof that is hipped at one end and a brick stack. There is also a tall brick stack to one of the rear lean-tos.

PLAN: the house (Murlinch End) has an L-shaped plan comprising a principal range with a late-C19 single-storey entrance range on the north-east side breaks forwards, a probable mid-C19 two-storey, addition of one bay at the north-east corner, and several single-storey lean-to additions at the rear.

EXTERIOR: the building faces south-east and has a symmetrical front elevation with deep eaves. At the centre of the ground floor is a pair of French doors of probable late-C20 date which mark the position of the original entrance. To either side is an early-C19 20-pane timber sash window, and there are three similar first-floor windows which have 16 panes. Attached to the right is a late-C19 single-storey extension which projects forwards. A door under a timber hood in its gable wall serves as the principal entrance. The windows to the side and rear elevations are mostly early-C21 hardwood casements with slimline double-glazing. The windows in the end gables includes a first-floor C19 sash window with marginal glazing in north-east wall and a mid-C20 metal-framed casement of one light within a round-arched opening in the opposite wall. A former doorway in the south-west gable wall has been replaced with a window. The lean-tos along the rear elevation have monopitched roofs, and the one to the right-hand end extends beyond the north-west corner of the house but has been truncated on its south-east side. It may be all that remains of the rear range that is shown here on the mid-C19 tithe map.