Survey Data
Reg No
14911006
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
House
Date
1760 - 1800
Coordinates
260955, 232945
Date Recorded
22/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached U-plan five-bay two-storey former country house, built c.1780, with central pedimented breakfront and flanking single-storey pavilions and extension to rear elevation. Burned and rebuilt c.1940. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and profiled cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar limestone front elevation, rendered side and rear elevations with tooled limestone quoins, limestone eaves course and plinth course. Square-headed window openings with limestone surrounds with keystones and sills and replacement aluminium windows. Group of three windows above entrance porch. Square-headed door opening with limestone architrave surround, limestone cornice supported by corbels and a timber panelled door. Door set within a semi-circular entrance porch supported by limestone Doric columns and accessed up seven limestone steps flanked by wrought-iron railings. Two-storey ranges to rear enclose yard and create flanking set-back pavilions to the main house. Hipped slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, pebbledashed walls, Diocletion and square-headed window openings and carriage arch and square-headed door openings with limestone surrounds to outbuildings. Walled gardens to south and south-east of house. Front site accessed through octagonal limestone piers. Gate missing. Gate lodge and entrance gates to road. Icehouse to south of house.
Appraisal
Although destroyed by fire in the first half of the twentieth century, the fine ashlar limestone was reused when the house was rebuilt and makes a valuable contribution to the architectural significance of the house. The extensive outbuildings to the rear yard with limestone dressings and walled gardens to the rear of the yard enhance the setting of the house. An icehouse survives on the property. The entrance gates and gate lodge provide a suitably elegant approach to this grand house.