Survey Data
Reg No
14916021
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Steward's house
Date
1830 - 1840
Coordinates
231209, 223292
Date Recorded
14/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey steward's house, built in 1836, with return to rear and extensions to east and west. Set within the grounds of Charleville Demesne. Hipped slate roof with ridge leading, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods with stone corbelling supporting eaves. Yellow brick to front elevation with tooled limestone quoins, smooth rendered walls to all other elevations. Timber sash windows with tooled block-and-start surrounds with decorative keystone and tooled stone sills. Timber sash and timber casement windows to extensions. Square-headed door opening with tooled limestone block-and-start surround and keystone with date, to timber and glazed door. Ranges of random rubble outbuildings with corrugated roofs to east and hipped roof to west. Range of single-storey rendered outbuildings with pitched slate roof to north. Outbuildings surrounding yard with rubble limestone wall with tooled capping to centre. Random coursed outbuilding with cut limestone quoins, four segmental-headed carriage arches and pitched corrugated roof to south east of house. Farmyard surround by crenellated random wall with ashlar gate piers.
Appraisal
This well proportioned steward's house is enlivened by the attention to detailing applied to its features. The yellow brick façade and contrasting tooled limestone quoins, eaves corbelling and decorative window and door surrounds create textural variation in the buildings appearance whilst adding both artistic and architectural significance to the structure. The high quality of masonry exhibited reflects the position of the house within the greater complex of Charleville Demesne.