Survey Data
Reg No
14935010
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1770 - 1790
Coordinates
210876, 207872
Date Recorded
27/05/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached L-plan multiple-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1780. Farmhouse comprises the remaining rear wing of a demolished five-bay two-storey over basement house with breakfront and hipped slate roof, knocked down in 1958. Lean-to extension to south-eastern elevation. Hipped slate roof to house with smooth and roughcast rendered chimneystacks, terracotta ridge tiles and uPVC rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Timber sash windows with tooled stone sills. Square-headed door opening to south-west entrance elevation with tooled block-and-start stone surround, replacement timber doorcase with glazed panels and geometric overlight. Square-headed door opening to north-east elevation with timber battened door and glazed overlight, opening to farmyard. Square-headed door opening inserted to south-eastern elevation with glazed door and overlight. Random coursed stone wall between house and farmyard to east. Three ranges of stone outbuildings to farmyard with random coursed stone walls and pitched slate roofs. Bellcote to gable of northern outbuilding. Stone setts and drain to interior floor. Integral carriage arch to eastern outbuilding, accessing fields beyond. External stone steps to western gable of southern outbuilding. Rusticated pier access yard from north with v-jointed tooled blocks, built from salvaged quoin stones of demolished gate lodge, formally located at the entrance gates. Lower yard to south of main farmyard. Open-fronted single-storey stone outbuilding with cast-iron columns supporting eaves of pitched slate roof. Corrugated-iron barrel-roofed outbuildings also to lower yard. Walled garden to south-west of house and farmyards, enclosed by random coursed stone walls. Walled garden accessed from lower yard through round-headed carriage opening. Square-headed pedestrian entrance with wrought- and cast-iron gate to north-eastern end of walled garden. Fluted and chamfered stone gate piers to road with octagonal capstones. Sweeping tooled stone plinth with wrought-iron railings terminating in outer piers.
Appraisal
According to the property's owners, the current farmhouse originally formed the rear section of a larger house, which was demolished in 1958. A photograph in their possession shows the fine residence as a five-bay two-storey over basement structure with a central breakfront and a hipped slate roof. Despite the major mid-twentieth-century alteration of the site, with large-scale demolition, the remaining wing, associated outbuildings and walled garden have a notable character. Fine craftsmanship is witnessed throughout the complex. Items of particular architectural value include the varied timber sash windows and finely made stone door surround of the dwelling house as well as the carriage arches, bellcote and cobblestone floor of the stable situated in the adjacent farmyard. Clonbeale House is a good example of a late eighteenth-century farm complex which has been well maintained that remains in use to this day.