Survey Data
Reg No
22112007
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social, Technical
Previous Name
Rowantree Croft
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Post office
In Use As
House
Date
1820 - 1860
Coordinates
217311, 121889
Date Recorded
13/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1840, with lean-to extension to rear. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, south stack being slate-hung, with rendered eaves course and having cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls with slate-hung south gable. Square-headed timber sliding sash windows, three-over-six pane to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor, all having limestone sills. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door, having timber pilasters, spoked fanlight, moulded archivolt, and limestone threshold. Rubble sandstone boundary wall to front of site with decorative cast-iron pedestrian gate.
Appraisal
The façade of this house is enlivened through notable features such as the diminishing timber sash windows and the slate-hanging to the south gable. The location of this house on an elevated site called for the addition of such weather-slating. This house forms part of a group of houses built along Moore's Road by prosperous families in the mid-nineteenth century. Once partially functioning as a post office, this house forms part of the historic social fabric of the village.