Survey Data
Reg No
14902001
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1810
Coordinates
224863, 238383
Date Recorded
26/10/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey with attic house, built c.1800, with return to rear, entrance porch and flanking castellated bays, c.1840. Single-storey extensions to rear elevation. Pitched tiled roof with rendered chimneystacks and bracketed limestone eaves course with decorative applied roundels. Ruled and lined rendered walls, castellated to flanking bays. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows, stucco architrave surrounds and limestone sills. Round-headed door opening to entrance porch with petal fanlight, granite columns and timber panelled door. Original entrance gates survive disused to west of house and consist of wrought-iron gates flanked by limestone piers with fluted cornice, flanked by quadrant walls with limestone castellation terminating in limestone piers.
Appraisal
Located on a quiet by-road off the busy N6, Springfield House is notable for its decorative elements including the castellated flanking bays, petal fanlight, architrave window surrounds and applied decorative roundels to the eaves course. The granite columns to the entrance porch are striking in their simplicity of designl. Once occupied by a doctor, the east flanking bay accommodated a doctor's surgery while the opposite bay was a screen wall for a sun room. The original entrance gates are located to the west of the house and are no longer in use but survive intact. The elegantly fluted limestone gate piers, wrought-iron gates and tree lined avenue must once have been an impressive entrance to Springfield House. The castellated quadrant walls on the entrance gates echo the castellated flanking bays to the main house and acts as a unifying element combining both structures.