Survey Data

Reg No

14315049


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Historical, Technical


Original Use

House


In Use As

Presbytery/parochial/curate's house


Date

1760 - 1770


Coordinates

296260, 274197


Date Recorded

30/04/2002


Date Updated

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Description

Detached three-bay three-storey house over basement, built c.1760. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystacks. Squared limestone walls with limestone plinth and eaves courses. Round-arched block-and-start stone door surround with a decorative keystone, timber replacement panelled door approached by flight of stone steps. Block-and-start window surrounds, with a projecting keystone, limestone sills and timber sash windows. Rubble stone walls surround open basement area. Flanked by screen walls. Wrought-iron bootscrapers on steps leading to entrance. Window openings to front elevation have block-and-start surrounds and timber sash windows. Open basement area is enclosed by a rubble stone wall. Flanked by outbuildings and is linked to them by screen walls. Cast-iron railings with ashlar limestone gate piers, set in rubble stone boundary walls.

Appraisal

This house was built as part of the formally planned eighteenth-century estate village as devised by Viscount Conyngham, who stipulated the form and materials to be used in the construction of the village. This house forms part of a group of four houses, each flanked by screen walls and outbuildings. This house retains many of its original features and materials such as the timber sash windows, and ashlar dressings.