Nos 5 And 7 Including Forecourt Walls

ST8051 BECKINGTON CP GOOSE STREET (North side)

15/55 Nos 5 and 7 including forecourt walls (previously listed as Skurrays and Vine Cottage)

11.3.68

GV II

Pair of attached houses. C17, number 7 refronted and dated 1702. Coursed rubble, dressed flush quoins, stone slate roof with 3 hipped casement dormers, brick end ridge stacks. Number 5 of 2 storeys and attic, 2 bays, moulded 3-light stone- mullioned windows. Central door opening in bead moulded stone surround, late C18 6-panelled door. Number 7 two storeys and attic, 4 bays, moulded 2-light stone mullioned windows to first floor, each with one leaded light; similarly moulded 4-light opening on ground floor, to its right narrow paned sash windows with glazing bars of early C19; continuous drip moulds above openings on both floors. Door opening to left in ogee moulded and stopped surround, late C18 6-panelled door. Above stone plaque, raised stone lettering:- "D1702". Interior contains broad fireplace in moulded 4-centred stone surround to ground floor; adjacent winder stair of oak with fluted nosing to each head raising to attic; 2 smaller fireplaces to first floor in ogee moulded stone surrounds; 3 late C18 two panelled doors. 'A' frame roof has a high collar with notched lapped joints. Rubble wall to forecourt of both properties, dressed feather edged coping, ramped to right; 2 pairs of gate piers, to right of rubble, to left of ashlar, pyramidal cappings (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, October 1976;).

Listing NGR: ST8012151989