Survey Data
Reg No
14936014
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Farm house
Date
1810 - 1850
Coordinates
221600, 206896
Date Recorded
10/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached T-plan three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1830, with earlier house to rear, c.1740, and entrance porch to front elevation. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks. Ruled and lined rendered walls with stucco quoins. Square-headed window openings with timber sash and casement windows and sandstone sills. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door and limestone step. Outbuildings to rear yard with pitched slate roofs and coursed sandstone walls with yellow brick dressing to later ranges. Sandstone carriage arched openings and flat-arches to door and window openings. Decorative cast-iron piers to front site with Greek key openwork. Cast-iron double gates to road supported by square-profile stone gate piers.
Appraisal
The modest symmetrical nineteenth-century façade of Pigeonstown House conceals an earlier eighteenth-century house to the rear. The single- and two-storey outbuildings to the yard enhance the setting of the house. Of particular note is the quality of the stonework to the openings on the outbuildings. The cast-iron entrance gates and cast-iron Greek key uprights to the front site contribute an artistic interest.