7 Halketshall, Limekilns

Early 18th or 17th Century; later alterations. Symmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay house (single storey cottage originally). Cream harling. Painted surrounds to openings.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central panelled door; 2-pane fanlight; flanking windows. 3 1st floor windows centred above.

W ELEVATION: Narrow curtain wall to S between this house and adjacent 8 Halketshall. Rubble gable wall. Pitch of former single storey cottage wallhead is visible and slightly advanced.

N ELEVATION: Rubble elevation, developed in 2 stages. Lower, slightly advanced ground floor (former single storey cottage elevation); later 1st floor level above. Later stone steps advanced at 1st floor to meet high ground level to N. Later tile-hung covering to steps; door to N; window to E. Advanced 1st floor section to right of steps; modern rooflights.

E ELEVATION: plain gable; narrow single storey, monopitch shed attached to E gable; timber boarded door.

Centrally hung tilting 12-pane timber replacement windows. Pitched roof; grey slate laid in diminishing courses; raised skews; W gable apex stack; stack stump to E. Concrete pantiles to shed.

INTERIOR: Interior modernised in 1973. Entrance door opens directly onto flight of steps. 2 rooms to ground floor; 2 above. Door inserted at 1st floor centre rear for access to external (now covered) steps, revealing great thickness of external wall. Collar rafter roof; metal and wooden pins; bark remains of some roof timbers.