Survey Data
Reg No
12402103
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
Country house
Date
1840 - 1860
Coordinates
268198, 155954
Date Recorded
12/10/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay two-storey Classical-style country house with dormer attic, c.1850, possibly over basement incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1725, on site with three-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor, single-bay two-storey advanced end bay to right, single-bay two-storey side elevation having canted bay window to ground floor, four-bay two-storey range along rear (west) elevation having single-bay full-height gabled advanced bay, and three-bay two-storey return to south-west. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan (pitched slate roof to parallel range continuing into return on an L-shaped plan; gabled to advance bay; gabled to dormer attic windows) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having moulded cornices, rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on moulded rendered eaves. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls on tooled cut-granite plinth with rock-faced dressed limestone walls to porch having cut-granite dressings including block-and-start quoins to corners incorporating bull-nose detailing, frieze on stringcourse, carved cornice, blocking course to parapet, and painted roughcast walls to rear (west) elevation having rendered strips to corners. Square-headed window openings (some in tripartite arrangement) with cut-granite sills (on cut-granite panelled risers to ground floor), moulded rendered surrounds (on consoles to canted bay window), and one-over-one timber sash windows having six-over-six timber sash windows to rear (west) elevation (some two-over-two timber sash windows throughout having eight-over-eight timber sash window to advanced bay). Round-headed door opening to porch on two cut-granite steps with cut-granite panelled pilaster doorcase having moulded necking, paired consoles supporting open-bed pediment, bull-nose reveals to door opening, timber panelled double doors having overlight, square-headed flanking window openings on cut-granite panelled risers having block-and-start surrounds, chamfered reveals, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with tarmacadam forecourt, and landscaped grounds to site.
Appraisal
An elegantly-appointed substantial country house redeveloped for the Fleming family in the mid-nineteenth century, incorporating a substantial early eighteenth-century range in the grounds, thereby maintaining a long-standing presence on site. Stylistically reminiscent of the contemporary (c.1850) View Mount (House) (12402107/KK-21-07) nearby, suggesting the possibility of a shared architect or builder the architectural design value of the composition is identified by characteristics including the balanced arrangement of the pleasantly-proportioned openings, the arrangement of some openings in a Wyatt-inspired tripartite manner, and so on, all centred on an enriched porch displaying high-quality stone masonry in the construction in a combination of granite and limestone. Having been very well maintained the house presents an early aspect with the original fabric surviving substantially intact both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby maintaining the character of a composition forming the centrepiece of a large-scale rural landholding (with 12402112 - 4/KK-21-12 - 4).