Survey Data
Reg No
15402307
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1820 - 1840
Coordinates
214310, 246372
Date Recorded
10/11/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c.1830, having projecting bowed windows to either side of central entrance to the principal elevation (north and south). Hipped natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, aligned parallel to the roof ridge, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Conical natural slate roofs over bows. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with rendered surrounds, cut stone sills and timber casement windows. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to side elevation. Central round-headed doorcase with moulded stone surround with blocks to base having a replacement timber panelled door with plain fanlight over. Set back from road in mature grounds to the east of Glassan with complex of single and two-storey outbuildings to the north with stables and bridle room. Rubble limestone gate piers supporting looped wrought-iron gate to the north. Main entrance to the southwest comprising rendered gate piers supporting decorative looped wrought-iron gates.
Appraisal
An unusual early nineteenth-century house, which retains its early form and character. The main façade of this small-scale structure is lent a sense of grandeur on account of the fine doorcase and by the elegant bows to either end of the main façade. This building retains a great deal of its early fabric but the replacement windows and door detract somewhat from its visual appeal. The good quality wrought-iron main entrance gate, the vernacular gates to the north and the unassuming collection of outbuildings to the rear, some of which retains early fittings, complete the setting and add to this fine composition. This house was in the ownership of a St. George-Gray, Esq., in 1834.