Listed Building: Nos. 2 and 3 and attached outhouse (1040902)

House (No. 3). C.1800. Coursed squared ironstone, slate roof, stone end stacks. Central 5-panel door with fanlight and stone surround with Doric pilasters, plain frieze and deep cornice. C19 horned sash windows to ground floor with flat-arched heads. Plinth, storey bands, moulded cornice with ball finials to left and right ends and stone-coped gables. 2-storey, attached, outhouse to right includes 3-bay stable and hayloft facing yard to rear. Slate roof. Chamfered stone eaves and stone-coped gable. 2-storey, 2-window attached cottage (No. 2) to left balances outhouse and has central part-glazed door with timber lintel; 3-light casement windows to ground and first floors. Slate roof and brick end and ridge stacks. Chamfered stone eaves and stone-coped gable. Probably built as the service cottage to No. 3. Interior: No. 3 has staircase hall with open well staircase from ground floor to attic with stick balusters and ramped and wreathed handrail. Fine 6-panel doors in moulded doorcases. Known as The Lodge before 1914. (P.B. Kingston, 'Blakesley Then and Now', 1983, p.9).

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