Building record 1899/0/12 - Nos 103 and 105, High Street, Tarvin

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 55773 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Formerly farmhouse, now house and cottage: early eighteenth century with roof raised late eighteenth century and late twentieth century fenestration. English bond orange brick on stone plinth and pebble-dashed rubble stone. Welsh slate roof and three brick chimneys (one central ridge). Single-pile plan. Two and three-storey, four-bay front. Projecting gable left end bay is now separate house and may have been a parlour wing of earlier farmhouse. Board door to rock cut cellar and casements with glazing bars above. Remainder of one build and his plain brick band at first floor and stepped band at second floor. Modern aluminium windows throughout and central glazed door all under flat gauged and rubbed brick heads. Bands continue at the sides. Interior: No. 103 has two-room plan and main room with heavy ceiling beam and exposed joists.

No. 105 has three rooms on each floor. Ashlar stack runs up through the middle of the house, twentieth century fireplaces. Slender timber framed partition walls, exposed ceiling beams and joists. Re-used twisted baluster staircase to first floor. A three-board door in top storey where queen post roof trusses are visible.