Description

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SK 39 SE
11/190

ECCLESFIELD
TOWN END ROAD
Court House

GV
II
Offices (2021), previously house, formerly a row of shops and cottages. C17, late-C18 and C19, restored around 1988. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and internal timber-framing. Slate roof with a single external, gable stack. Two-storey, four-bay street front has a pair of off-centre doorways with punch-dressed jamb-quoins and lintels. To the right of these, two, two-light mullion casements in flush ashlar surrounds; to the left a central doorway with punch-dressed jamb-quoins and lintel, flanked by two-light mullion casements in flush ashlar surrounds. Four similar two-light windows under the eaves, stacked above the ground-floor examples with smaller eaves window in bay 1. Stair window with leaded glass and tooled ashlar surround between bays 3 and 4. North-east gable wall has large external stack, flanked by single C17 chamfered ashlar casements with, above, single C20 casements in flush ashlar surrounds. Interior contains 3 pairs of full-height crucks with trenched purlins with struts, and small upper collars plus ridge piece. A small four-centred arched chimney piece, and a large ashlar fireplace with keystone lintel.

Listing NGR: SK3526294086

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26499286

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)