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Crank House — Main Street

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Crank House — Main Street
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Detached seven-bay two-storey former house, built c.1750, with full-height bowed entrance bay, integral carriage arch to south, return and outbuildings to rear. Now used as a hostel and visitors centre. House fronts directly onto street. Pitched slate roof with conical roof to entrance bay, terracotta ridge tiles, roughcast rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched tiled roof to integral carriage arch and returns. Roughcast rendered walls. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Venetian casement window to entrance bay. Square-headed door opening with tooled stone Gibbsian doorcase with pediment. Fossilised stone threshold, replacement timber panelled door with sidelights. Converted stone outbuildings and derelict stone outbuilding with pyramidal slate roof with lantern to rear site.

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