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| The gate piers to Winster Hall |
Leaving the Church of St. John the Baptist, I took a couple of photos of Briar Cottage and its outbuilding on Elton Road, which provide further examples of Carboniferous Limestone – both dolomitised and unaltered - and reddened gritstone from the Corbar Grit.
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| Briar Cottage |
Crossing over to Main Street, the next building on my British Listed Buildings Photo Challenge was the early C18 3-bay house next to Holmelea, which is set on a plot that abuts Holmelea and is bounded by Main Street and the yard on the other sides. A contrast in the colour of the gritstone masonry below the chimney stack and the adjacent walling suggests that there has been sulphate damage from the flue, which has necessitated the replacement of the stone.
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| The house to the east of Holmelea |
At the end of the yard is Heathcote House and Cottage, dated to the C17 with C19 alterations. The front elevation is built with tooled squared and coursed blocks of buff/red gritstone, with the mullions to all the windows retained – including the gabled dormers – but limestone rubble is used for the west elevation and presumably the others that I couldn't see.
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| Heathcote House |
Looking east along Main Street, I could see that a combination of 3-storey townhouses and substantial cottages, dating from the early to late C18, are densely packed alongside the road, with their frontage not even separated from the street by railings and a small garden.
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| A view east along Main Street |
I can’t recall seeing such a range of houses anywhere in my travels in Derbyshire and, presumably, owners/managers of the lead mines that drove the rapid growth of Winster occupied some of these, along with merchants who provided associated commercial services.
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| Stoneheath and the adjoining house |
Stoneheath and the adjoining house date to the late C18 and the by now familiar reddened gritstone is used for the ashar and projecting quoins, with Welsh slate for the roof. Next door to this is The Old House, a 3-bay house with its central doorway having a semi-circular hood above and, as at Stoneheath, sashes have superseded mullioned windows.
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| The Old House |
A little further down Main Street is the detached Virginia House, which is Grade II listed for group value, although its architectural features – a plain 3-bay and 3-storey elevation with sash windows – are very similar to The Old House, except that it lacks a hooded doorway and limestone rubble is used for the walling.
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| Virginia House |
Retracing my steps down Main Street to photograph the listed buildings on the south side of the road, the early C18 Smithy House is mainly built with very large blocks of reddened gritstone and a few buff coloured blocks are used for the upper storey. The asymmetrical layout of its mullioned windows, the position of the chimney stacks and its two doorways seem to indicate that this was originally two houses, but the Historic England (HE) description doesn't mention this.
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| Smithy House |
Moving on to the next building on my Photo Challenge, the late C18 "Pair of Houses Opposite Winster House" are built with dolomitic limestone rubble walling, with gritstone quoins and dressings and plain tiles used for the roof.
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| The pair of houses opposite Winster House |
A little further along the road is the mid C18 Carillon, originally a pair of cottages built with a mixture of dolomitic limestone and reddened gritstone used for the walling, with massive blocks of gritstone used for the quoins and lintels to the doorways, but the roughcast render mentioned in the description has since been removed.
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| Carillon |
Stopping to photograph the K6 telephone kiosk, I then crossed over the road to get a better view of the C18 Lodge, formerly listed as the Crown Inn and having its name changed again to Old Crown House, is another building where the roughcast render has been removed to reveal a mixture of limestone and gritstone walling.
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| The Lodge |
Crossing back over the road to photograph the Grade II* listed early C17 Neoclassical style Winster Hall and its separately Grade II listed gate piers and boundary wall, this small country house strongly contrasts with all of the other houses on Main Street - not least because it is set back from the road and is surrounded by a garden. Built with gritstone ashlar, square in plan and with 5 bays, the central section is dominated by a doorway with Doric half columns beneath a moulded pediment and giant pilasters that rise to a balustrated parapet.
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| Winster Hall |
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