Survey Data
Reg No
11904004
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Miller's house
In Use As
House
Date
1830 - 1870
Coordinates
276086, 183289
Date Recorded
06/11/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey former mill owner's house, c.1850, with two-bay two-storey side elevations to north-west and to south-east. Renovated, c.1980, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting glazed porch added to centre. Now in private residential use. Hipped roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Overhanging timber eaves. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings (tripartite to ground floor flanking bays). Stone sills. 1/1 timber sash windows to ground floor. 6/6 timber sash windows to first floor. Elliptical-headed door opening. Timber panelled door. Side lights. Decorative fanlight. Glazed porch added, c.1980, with fixed-pane timber windows and glazed timber panelled French doors. Set back from road in own grounds. Tarmacadam forecourt to front. Attached six-bay two-storey outbuilding, c.1850, to rear to north-east possibly originally mill worker's accommodation range. Hipped roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Overhanging timber eaves. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. 1/1 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening. Replacement timber panelled door, c.1980. Gateway, c.1850, to north-west comprising pair of cut-granite piers with capping having wrought iron gates with lattice work panels.
Appraisal
This house is a fine and well-maintained example of a mid nineteenth-century substantial mill owner's house that retains much of its original character. Situated adjacent to the Prumplestown Corn Mill complex, the house and mill buildings form a neat and attractive group that is of social and historical importance, representing the former industrial centre in the region. The house is a substantial, gentleman's residence-style building of graceful Classical proportions on a symmetrical plan and is finely, if austerely, detailed to convey the success of the business man resident within. The house retains much of its original features and materials, including fenestration and a slate roof while the addition of a glazed porch that dominates the entrance (south-west) front has been inserted in keeping with the original appearance of the house. The range to rear (north-east) is unusual in its massing and was possibly originally built as an integrated coach house or accommodation range for mill workers - its scale suggests that it was not built simply as a return. The house is attractively set in its own landscaped grounds and the estate is announced on the road side by a fine gateway of granite piers and early surviving wrought iron gates that are decoratively detailed with lattice work panels.