Survey Data
Reg No
60260074
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Outbuilding
Date
1780 - 1837
Coordinates
324825, 219337
Date Recorded
14/11/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Farmyard complex, extant 1837, on a U-shaped plan about a courtyard including (east): Detached nine-bay single-storey stable outbuilding with half-attic on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on collared timber construction with lichen-covered ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods surviving on cut-granite eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed lime rendered coursed rubble stone walls with concealed flush quoins to corners. Pair of square-headed door openings with cut-granite thresholds, and cut-granite block-and-start surrounds framing timber boarded doors. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds with fittings now boarded up. Square-headed window openings (half-attic) with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing louvered timber fittings. Interior including (ground floor): timber boarded stalls with fluted ball finial-topped cast-iron newel posts. Set in grounds shared with Old Connaught House.
Appraisal
A farmyard complex contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Old Connaught House estate.