| Description | Lower Slack, Warley. 19th century cottage incorporating earlier 17th to early 18th century windows.
Lower Slack was the subject of an archaeological assessment by Colum Giles in 1980 as part of the WYAS/RCHME Rural Houses Survey. The grid reference provided by Giles is SE 046284. The brief fieldwork notes are transcribed below:
'19th century house bearing inscribed stone: 'T and S Murgatroyd. Rebuilt 1824'. Re uses earlier windows’.
(Giles, C. (WYAS/RCHME). 1980. 'Warley. Lower Slack').
The house is tentatively identified as 1a Sun Buildings, Wainstalls. This cottage which features an inscription stone [unreadable on available resources]. The ground floor window of 1a is five light, the second and third lights being narrower, and has chamfered mullions and bevelled surrounds indicating reuse or adaptation from an earlier building. 1 and 1a Sun Buildings form a roughly matched pair of cottages attached to a later house to the east. They are two storey and are built of coursed sandstone each with the front door adjacent to the party wall. The upstairs widows are two light, possibly with mullion removed. Over openings also have bevelled edges but this may be a later contrivance. Connecting the ground floor windows of the both cottages is a continuous course of very narrow masonry. The gutters are supported on regularly spaced square brackets. The western gable wall has copings with kneelers. They appear to be of early 19th century with just enough evidence to hint at a rebuild of an earlier structure (Lunn, K.R. (WYAAS). 2014. Description of 1 1a Sun Buildings, Wainstalls based on online map resources. Description found in digital HER record only and not on file at WYAAS)(https://maps.google.co.uk/. Web site accessed 16/01/2014). |