Survey Data
Reg No
15702562
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Wilton House
Original Use
Farmyard complex
Date
1700 - 1840
Coordinates
294387, 134994
Date Recorded
22/08/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Farmyard complex, extant 1840, on an L-shaped plan about a courtyard including (north): Attached four-bay single-storey stable outbuilding with half-attic on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Hipped and pitched slate roof with clay or terracotta ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods surviving on slate flagged eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast walls over coursed or snecked rubble stone construction. Square-headed door openings with cut-granite thresholds, and cut-granite surrounds centred on fluted keystones framing timber boarded doors. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber pivot fittings having square glazing bars. Square-headed openings (half-attic) with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing louvered timber fittings; (east): Attached three-bay single-storey coach house with half-attic on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched and hipped slate roof with clay or terracotta ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods surviving on slate flagged eaves. Fine roughcast walls over coursed or snecked rubble stone construction. Series of three segmental-headed carriageways with concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds having stepped reveals framing double doors having overpanels. Square-headed window openings (half-attic) with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber fittings having square glazing bars. Set in grounds shared with Wilton Castle with piers to perimeter having cut-granite capping supporting wrought iron double gates.
Appraisal
A farmyard complex contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Wilton Castle estate.