Survey Data
Reg No
15402025
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1760 - 1800
Coordinates
256320, 254475
Date Recorded
11/11/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1780. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth course with smooth rendered margins to corners. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber casement windows. Central round-headed door opening (west) with glazed timber double doors having carved stone doorcase comprising Doric columns supporting an open bed pediment over with spoke fanlight. Set back from road in mature grounds with complex of outbuildings to the south and southwest. Early rubble limestone outbuilding abuts house to rear (west) having pitched slate roof and brick dressings to openings.
Appraisal
A middle-sized house, of balanced Georgian proportions, which retains most of its early form and character despite recent alterations to the roof structure and windows. The large expanse of blank walling to the front façade lends this house quite a robust and sturdy appearance and may indicate a relatively early date. The fine cut stone Doric doorcase is an important feature of artistic merit that helps to distinguish this otherwise plain building. The glazed timber doors are probably a late nineteenth-century addition but they blend in well with the earlier doorcase. The fine outbuilding adjoining to the west completes the setting of this appealing composition.