Survey Data
Reg No
22402107
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Archaeological, Architectural
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
190770, 180193
Date Recorded
07/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached six-bay two-storey house over half-basement, built c.1800, with three-bay gable elevations. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls to upper storeys, roughly dressed limestone walls, moulded limestone eaves course, basement string course and having round-headed alcoves to gables. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows to first floor, timber casement to ground, and replacement timber with brick voussoirs to basement, all with cut-stone sills. Inserted early eighteenth-century carved limestone Gibbsian doorcase, flanked by sidelights with replacement windows and having replacement glazed timber door with lintel and cobweb fanlight above, surmounted by open-bed pediment supported on consoles. Flight of limestone steps leading to door. Ruins of earlier castle to site.
Appraisal
The form and scale of this house are enhanced by the retention of features such as timber sash and casement windows and roof slates. The diminishing windows and well-carved Gibbsian doorway are typical of Georgian-style architecture.