High Halstead, Easington
Description: High Halstead
Grade: II
Date Listed: 16 November 1954
English Heritage Building ID: 183090
OS Grid Reference: SD7426959200
OS Grid Coordinates: 374269, 459200
Latitude/Longitude: 54.0281, -2.3943
Location: Easington, Lancashire
Locality: Easington
Local Authority:
County: Lancashire
Country: England
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Listing Text
SD 75 NW EASINGTON
5/39 High Halstead (formerly listed
16.11.1954 as Halstead)
- II
House, 'WG 1687' on plaque. Slobbered rubble with slate roof. 2 storeys.
The south gable now has a sashed window with no glazing bars and plain stone
surround on the 1st floor. Below is a former door surround, now a window,
the moulding of the jambs continuing around an elaborately shaped lintel,
with a central pendant ornament of 2 scrolls and a ball. A moulded and
decorated hood rises over the lintel and the date plaque over. The 1st
floor projects on a decorated string course, which returns on the right-hand
wall. It consists of sections of gadroon decoration, each with a central
'Celtic' head. The east wall has a C19th single-storey porch. To its
south there is a one-light window on each floor with ovolo moulding and cyma
moulded hood. The ground-floor window has a segmental head, the 1st floor
window a shaped head. To the north of the porch, in the east wall, there is an
enlarged window with one mullion and the remains of a double-chamfered surround.
On the 1st floor there are the remains of a double-chamfered surround, with a
plain stone surround to the left. Inside there are said to be no C17th
features.
Listing NGR: SD7426959200
Source: English Heritage
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