Survey Data
Reg No
15700505
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1800 - 1839
Coordinates
302365, 158981
Date Recorded
28/09/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan. Undergoing repair, 2007. Now disused. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, rooflights to rear (south) pitch, and no rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on slate flagged eaves. Fine roughcast battered walls. Square-headed central door opening with rendered lintel framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from road in unkempt grounds with limewashed piers to "cottage garden" having stepped capping supporting flat iron gate.
Appraisal
A farmhouse representing an integral component of the domestic built heritage of Askamore with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact rectilinear plan form centred on a featureless doorcase; the feint battered silhouette; and the somewhat disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing compounded by the slight diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, thereby upholding much of the character or integrity of the composition. Furthermore, adjacent outbuildings ("1850") continue to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.