Survey Data
Reg No
16401501
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Country house
Date
1710 - 1730
Coordinates
288419, 203334
Date Recorded
13/08/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey with basement country house, built c.1720, but with a third-storey possibly added later. The country house was destroyed during the 1798 Rebellion or its aftermath and is now in ruins. The remaining walls are part rendered and part slate-clad, with large sections covered in plant growth. There is a moulded string course between the first and second floor levels. The roof has completely collapsed. The entrance has been blocked up but its lugged stone architrave remains. The window openings are flat-headed and all have lost their frames; some of the openings have been blocked up. The country house is set in a field.
Appraisal
Whilst ruinous, this country house does afford us an insight into the form of an early 18th-century minor country house, a genre, ironically, seemingly much scarcer than larger houses of the era.