Survey Data
Reg No
16402115
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Country house
In Use As
Country house
Date
1880 - 1920
Coordinates
290749, 194307
Date Recorded
12/08/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay two-storey country house, c.1810, possibly over basement with four-bay single-storey lateral wing. Renovated, c.1985. Hipped slate roof to main block and pitched slate roof to wing with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, 2/2 (ground floor) and 3/6 (first floor) timber sash windows, and replacement timber casement windows, c.1985, to wing. Segmental-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled door and fanlight. Set back from road in own grounds with gravel forecourt, and landscaped grounds. Detached rubble stone outbuilding to site. Gateway to site comprising pair of cut-granite piers with wrought iron double gates.
Appraisal
An attractive, middle-size country house of modest form and appearance retaining much of its original character, and contributing to the historic appeal of the locality.