Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

Abbey House — Abbey Street

house
View what I want to do
Abbey House — Abbey Street
Photo: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · Open the original picture · Website use allowed for educational or private purposes with source credit · Report the wrong picture · If this is your picture and you want it taken down, email me.
Know this place?

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directionsShare what you found

What is recorded here

Semi-detached house, built c. 1835, having four-bay three-storey front elevation, three-bay three-storey south side elevation and three-bay four-storey rear. Three-bay two-storey addition to rear with hipped slate roof and having single-storey return with segmental stone arch partly constructed of salvaged limestone blocks. Blind window to south end of top floor front and east end of first floor of south elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with dressed stone sills, having replacement uPVC windows throughout except for round-headed six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to middle bay of rear elevation. Segmental-headed entrance opening with moulded limestone surround and chamfered cut-stone doorcase, having panelled jambs, with timber panelled door and petal fanlight, accessed by limestone steps. Chamfered cut limestone plinth wall to front with cast-iron railings, having lion's paw detail to base, decorative cast-iron gate piers and gate. Stone flagged pavement to area in front of house.

This official record and map point do not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.