Reg No
20404514
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Clarisford originally Clarisford House
Original Use
Bishop's palace
In Use As
House
Date
1770 - 1780
Coordinates
170295, 171948
Date Recorded
26/09/1997
Date Updated
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Detached five-bay (three-bay deep) three-storey over part-raised basement bishop's palace, built 1771-9, to designs by Thomas Cooley (1742?-84) of Dublin and London; five-bay three-storey rear (south) elevation. Sold, 1977. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimney stacks and overhanging eaves having paired consoles. Rendered walls. Square-headed central door opening in tripartite arrangement with overpainted cut-limestone doorcase and timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills and six-over-six or three-over-three timber sash windows. Interior with timber architraves, doors and shuttersshutters. Outbuildings and walled garden to site.